Description

WORCESTER

SO8554NW NEW STREET
620-1/17/457 (East side)
08/03/74 No.28
Swan With Two Nicks
Formerly Listed as:
NEW STREET
(East side)
No.28
Dirty Duck)

GV II

House, now inn. Origins of late C16 with early/mid C18 facade and
later additions and alteration. Timber frame; painted brick
facade with ashlar copings and sills, concealed roof; cast-iron
rainwaterhead and fallpipe.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 4 first-floor windows. Ground and first
floors have 8/8 flush sashes, those to first floor with flat
arches of rubbed brick; second floor has 4/8 flush sashes and
flat arches of rubbed brick, all with sills. To first and second
floors the third opening is blind. Coped parapet. Off-centre
right entrance, a 6-reeded-flush-panel door in renewed surround
with pediment on brackets. Further opening at right a part-glazed
door. Rainwaterhead and fallpipe.
INTERIOR: ground floor altered but retains exposed chamfered
beams and purlins, passageway at left has rectangular framing.
First-floor has chamfered beams with ogee stops, exposed rafters;
exposed timber-framing, some renewed. HISTORICAL NOTE: thought to
be the oldest site of a building in New Street dating from C13,
this building thought to date from c1550. In 1581 it was leased
for 21 years to Edward Elcox, weaver from the Church of St Martin
at an annual rent of 26s 8d; by 1764 it was a tavern leased by
Charles Lea. In 1771 it was in two tenancies, one part known as
The Swan, tenanted by James Crump; in 1780 it was known as The
Little Swan and by 1830 it had become The Swan With Two Nicks,
tenanted by George Burrows; during the 1890s it was known as The
Swan With Two Necks. Ma Watkins was the last landlady to brew
beer here c1940s. 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 ... of these The Old Pheasant (qv) and Nash House (qv) are
the most complete, while No.10 (qv) and The Swan with Two Necks
contain vestiges of an earlier structure.'
Nos 25-30 (consecutive) (qv) form a good group with the listed
buildings in Cornmarket (qv).
Information supplied by Linda Griffin, landlady of The Swan With
Two Nicks.
(Hughes P: Buildings and the Building Trade in Worcester
1540-1650: PhD thesis: 1990-: 200).

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26669441

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Recommended Books

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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)