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21, Mealcheapen Street

A Grade II Listed Building in Worcester, Worcestershire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.1927 / 52°11'33"N

Longitude: -2.2195 / 2°13'10"W

OS Eastings: 385091

OS Northings: 254966

OS Grid: SO850549

Mapcode National: GBR 1G4.HPG

Mapcode Global: VH92T.G4ZW

Plus Code: 9C4V5QVJ+35

Entry Name: 21, Mealcheapen Street

Listing Date: 5 April 1971

Last Amended: 27 June 2001

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1390006

English Heritage Legacy ID: 488957

ID on this website: 101390006

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

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Description



WORCESTER

SO8554NW MEALCHEAPEN STREET
620-1/17/441 (South side)
05/04/71 No.21

GV II

House and cardmaker's shop. 1635-9 for William Bradley with
later additions and alterations including refronting and rear
range c1674-8 and stucco to front facade; c1970s ground-floor
shop front. Timber frame with facade of stucco over brick and
concealed roof.
EXTERIOR: 4 storeys, 1 first-floor window. First and second
floors each have 8/8 flush sash with sill and flat arch of
voussoirs and keystone. To third floor a blind shallow-arched
recess and central lozenge. Coped parapet. Ground floor has
outer pilasters, frieze and cornice, otherwise plate-glass
window and glazed door.
INTERIOR: ground floor has no evidence of original plan or
original features. Otherwise not inspected but noted s having
small square panels of timber-framing and evidence of 3
jetties.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the rebuilding accounts for this building
survive, submitted by William Bradley, a Worcester cardmaker in
1639 to his landlords, the Stourbridge Grammar School. Accounts
for this sort of small townhouses are rare. 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-: 118,144,199-200,223).


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