Description

WORCESTER

SO8554NW HIGH STREET
620-1/17/354 (West side)
19/07/73 No.95

GV II

House, part of terrace; now shop. Front c1870 to earlier
property. Red brick with stone dressings and shopfront, slate
roof with parapet. Stack to left end ridge with oversailing
detail. Polished marble columns and cast-iron railings to
shopfront. 3 storeys with attic and cellar. 4 first-floor
windows. Stone detailing includes parapet coping, moulded eaves
cornice with bracketted ends, sill band on corbel brackets to
second-floor windows, stilted segmental arch moulded window heads
on corbel brackets. Brick detailing includes scrolled arrisses to
window reveals. 1/1 sashes throughout. Arcaded ground-floor of 5
stilted segmental arches supported on detached colonnettes with
Corinthian capitals and high engaged pedestals; entablature has
egg-and-dart moulding to lower edge of cornice and fascia, carved
console brackets. 6-panel raised and fielded doors to centre and
right, other openings have full-height glazing protected at
low-level by ornate railings linking the pedestals. NTERIOR: late
C19 plasterwork to ground-floor front; paved passage on right
leads to early C19 pair of panelled and semi-circular arched
doors. No other features visible, but boxing to beams and ceiling
heights are indicative of possible timber frame.
HISTORICAL NOTE: These premises were the wine cellars of siah
Stallard and Sons' noted as being established here in 1808. The
shop front is a particularly fine example of its period.
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Worcestershire: Harmondsworth:
1968-1985: 330; Transactions of the Worcestershire Archaeological
Society: Carver M O H (Editor): Medieval Worcester - An
Archaeological Framework: Worcester: 1980-: 311; Worcester Daily
Times: Worcester at Work: Worcester: 1903-: 23; Measom G:
Official Illustrated Guide to the Great Western Railway: 1860-:
432-434).

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26669336

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