Description

WORCESTER

SO8455SE ANGEL STREET
620-1/12/22 (South side)
02/11/99 No.13

GV II

Warehouse, now shop. c1850 with later additions and
alterations including shop front c1980's. Pinkish-brown brick
in Flemish bond with stone sills and ashlar rustication to
ground floor; the brick facade has colourwashed bands;
concealed roof. 4 storeys, 2 first-floor windows with further
loading bay to each floor. Ground floor: to left part a
rusticated plinth and broad, rusticated pilasters to either
side. Traditional-style glazed shop front incorporates
part-glazed door and overlight with fascia. To right a
carriage entrance with cambered arch and keystone. Windows:
first and second floors have 8/8 sashes, third floor has 4/8
sashes, all in plain reveals and with sills and flat arches of
gauged brick. Pitching doors (to right bay, above carriage
arch): all plank doors in diminishing heights; all in plain
reveals and with flat arches of gauged brick, except to third
floor a timber lintel; all with hinged platforms. Hoist
mounting to upper stage. Continuous 2-course eaves band. Coped
parapet. Right return retains elliptically-arched openings, 3
to ground and first floors, then two to upper floors, all with
mainly 2-light casement windows.
INTERIOR: the ground floor has been gutted. Otherwise not
inspected.
A good example of a mid C19 warehouse, adjacent to the Corn
Exchange (qv) with which it is probably contemporary.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26669282

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)