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Latitude: 52.1926 / 52°11'33"N
Longitude: -2.2192 / 2°13'8"W
OS Eastings: 385115
OS Northings: 254948
OS Grid: SO851549
Mapcode National: GBR 1G4.HRQ
Mapcode Global: VH92T.H550
Plus Code: 9C4V5QVJ+28
Entry Name: 7 and 8, Mealcheapen Street
Listing Date: 5 April 1971
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1389998
English Heritage Legacy ID: 488949
ID on this website: 101389998
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 Martin's in the Cornmarket with St Swithun and St Paul
Church of England Diocese: Worcester
Tagged with: Building
WORCESTER
SO8554NW MEALCHEAPEN STREET
620-1/17/433 (South side)
05/04/71 Nos.7 AND 8
GV II
Formerly known as: Red Lion Inn. Inn, now shops with offices
over. 1765 with later additions and alterations including
c1980s shop fronts. Reddish-brown brick in Flemish bond with
brick eaves, stone sills and keystones; plain tile roof;
probably timber framed.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys plus attics, 5 first-floor windows (3:2).
6/6 near-flush sashes with flat arches of gauged brick and
central raised keystones, sills. Crowning modillion eaves band.
2 roof dormers with hipped roofs have casement windows. Ground
floor has Victorian-style shop fronts with glazed windows and
entrances; further entrance to right a board door.
INTERIORS: noted as retaining the original staircase from first
floor.
HISTORICAL NOTE: owned by the Dean and Chapter and rented out.
Formerly The Red Lion Inn, developed as such by the Cooke
family c1650s. Rebuilt from ground level after a fire of 1765.
Mealcheapen Street flourished particularly n the C16 and early
C17 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.'
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, 209).
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