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Latitude: 52.1927 / 52°11'33"N
Longitude: -2.2194 / 2°13'10"W
OS Eastings: 385095
OS Northings: 254965
OS Grid: SO850549
Mapcode National: GBR 1G4.HPG
Mapcode Global: VH92T.H40W
Plus Code: 9C4V5QVJ+36
Entry Name: 20, Mealcheapen Street
Listing Date: 5 April 1971
Last Amended: 27 June 2001
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1390005
English Heritage Legacy ID: 488956
ID on this website: 101390005
Location: Worcester, Worcestershire, WR1
County: Worcestershire
District: Worcester
Town: 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
620-1/17/440 (South side)
05/04/71 No.20
GV II
Probably shop and house. c1500-1550 with later additions and
alterations including brick encasing of early C18 for William
Cave and 1970s restorations by FWB Charles and shop front.
Timber frame; red brick casing with rubbed brick arch and plain
tile roof.
PLAN: 2-bay frame with gable end to street. Two storeys, one
first-floor window, gable end to street. First floor has
casement window with flat arch. Ground floor has plate-glass
shop front and glazed entrance to left.
INTERIOR: no evidence remains to ground floor of plan or
original fittings. Hughes notes that this shows extensive
evidence of C16 frame and clasped purlin roof with curved
windbraces.
HISTORICAL NOTE: this plot was part of the Whiteladies' estate.
Mealcheapen Street flourished particularly in 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
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, 222-223).
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