Description

WORCESTER

SO8554NW HIGH STREET
620-1/17/334 (East side)
05/04/71 No.27

GV II

House, now shop with offices. Mid C18 with later alterations
including shop front mid C19. Pinkish-brown brick in Flemish bond
with rubbed brick arches and timber cornice; concealed roof with
truncated right stack; timber shop front and lead rainwater head.
3 storeys, 4 first-floor windows. First and second floors have
6/6 sashes in plain reveals with flat arches, those to second
floor have sills. Moulded cornice and low, coped parapet. 5
tie-rod ends between first and second floors. Rainwaterhead and
fall-pipe to left. Ground floor retains continuous Victorian shop
front; entrance to left has 5-panel door with overlight; then
shop front has plinth, plate-glass windows divided by slender
mullions and panes curved on plan canted in to further off-centre
right entrance a glazed door with lower panel; continuous frieze
divided into panes by slender mullions; fluted Ionic pilasters to
ends and to right of left-hand entrance surmounted by dentil
entablature, acanthus modillions surmount pilasters and 2 to
centre, crowning cornice has foliate decoration. Demolished and
rebuilt in 1974, with the exception of the facade facing onto
High Street which is significant for its C18 fabric and
impressive C19 shop front.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26669315

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]