Description

WORCESTER

SO8554NW MEALCHEAPEN STREET
620-1/17/432 (South side)
05/04/71 No.6

GV II

House, now shop with office over. 1767 for William Stokes with
later additions and alterations including c1980s ground-floor
shop front. Purplish-red brick in Flemish bond with rubbed red
brick flat arches and stone sills and keystones; timber
cornice; plain tile roof with left end brick stack.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys plus attic, 3 first-floor windows. First
and second floors have near-flush-frame 6/6 sashes with sills
and flat arches of rubbed brick with keystones. Crowning
cornice. Attic roof dormer has hipped roof and casement window.
Ground floor has glazed shop front with glazed door, fascia has
outer corbel brackets on panelled pilasters, ovolo-moulded
cornice.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: a fire of 1767 destroyed the C17 house on this
site, it was rebuilt for William Stokes and let to Charles West
Roberts. Mealcheapen Street flourished particularly in the C16
and early 17 predominantly as a retail outlet; Hughes: 'it was
the proximity to the Cornmarket that gave the street much of
its prosperity and led to the establishment of a number of
large inns.' One build with Nos 4 and 5 Mealcheapen Street
(qv).
All the listed buildings in Mealcheapen Street form a group
together with the listed buildings in Cornmarket and with
Church of St Swithun, Church Street (qqv).
(Hughes P: Buildings and the Building Trade in Worcester
1540-1650: PhD thesis: 1990-: 199-200, 207).

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26669421

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