Description

WORCESTER

SO8554NW NEW STREET
620-1/17/456 (East side)
08/03/74 No.27

GV II

House, now shops with flat and offices over. Late C18 with
probably earlier origins and later additions and alterations
including c1980s shop fronts.
Reddish-brown brick in Flemish bond with flat arches of red
gauged brick; ashlar sills and cornice; concealed roof and left
side brick stack with oversailing course and pots; cast-iron
rainwaterheads and fallpipes.
PLAN: L-plan, range at rear.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with attic, 5 first-floor windows. First
and second floors have 6/6 sashes in plain reveals and with
sills with flat arches. Crowning frieze and ovolo-moulded
cornice, coped parapet. Attic dormer concealed behind parapet.
Ground floor, central entrance a panelled door with 3 lower
panels and 6 glazed panels, 6-pane overlight; shop front has
panelled pilasters to either side of main entrance, fascia and
cornice, glazed shop windows and outer glazed doors with
overlights.
Range to rear: 2-storey range has 6/6 and 8/8 sashes; 2
tripartite windows with 6/6 between 2/2 ashes; part-glazed door
with overlight with Gothick glazing bars. 2 rainwaterheads and
fallpipes.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: New Street had changed its name from the
medieval Glover Street by 1523. Hughes: 'New Street, in the C16
and C17 phase, was a street of dwelling-houses with workshops
behind.'
Nos 25-30 (consecutive) form a group with the listed buildings
in Cornmarket (qv).
(Hughes P: Buildings and the Building Trade in Worcester
1540-1650: PhD thesis: 1990-: 200).

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26669440

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Recommended Books

• 
  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)