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27, High Street

A Grade II Listed Building in Worcester, Worcestershire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.1909 / 52°11'27"N

Longitude: -2.2202 / 2°13'12"W

OS Eastings: 385043

OS Northings: 254767

OS Grid: SO850547

Mapcode National: GBR 1G4.PHJ

Mapcode Global: VH92T.G6M8

Plus Code: 9C4V5QRH+9W

Entry Name: 27, High Street

Listing Date: 5 April 1971

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1389892

English Heritage Legacy ID: 488843

ID on this website: 101389892

Location: Worcester, Worcestershire, WR1

County: Worcestershire

District: Worcester

Electoral Ward/Division: Cathedral

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Worcester

Traditional County: Worcestershire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Worcestershire

Church of England Parish: Worcester St Nicholas and All Saints

Church of England Diocese: Worcester

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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.


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