Description

WORCESTER

SO8554NW NEW STREET
620-1/17/452 (East side)
05/04/71 No.15

GV II

House, now shop. c1700 with later additions and alterations
including mid C19 shop front. Reddish brick in Flemish bond
with flat arches of red gauged brick; ashlar sills, keystones,
cornice and copings; cement tile roof; timber shop front.
PLAN: probably original lobby entry at centre of a left side
passage.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 3 first-floor windows. First floor has 6/6
flush sashes; second floor has 2/2 flush sashes; all with
sills, flat arches and central keystones, those to first floor
with cornices. Crowning frieze and ovolo-moulded cornice;
renewed low coped parapet. Shop front has end pilasters with
unk panels and pilaster to right of left entrance a 4-panel
door with overlight; 4-pane windows on aprons, off-centre right
entrance, glazed double doors and overlight; continuous frieze
and cornice with end brackets.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: New Street had changed its name from the
medieval Glover Street by 1523. Hughes: 'New Street, in its C16
and C17 phase, was a street of dwelling-houses with workshops
behind.'
(Hughes P: Buildings and the Building Trade in Worcester
1540-1650: PhD thesis: 1990-: 149-151, 200).

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26669437

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Recommended Books

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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)