Description

WORCESTER

SO8554NW NEW STREET
620-1/17/460 (West side)
08/03/74 Nos.49 AND 50

GV II

2 house, now shops and offices. Numbered right to left, described
left to right. Early C18 with later additions and alterations
including mid C19 shop front. Pinkish-brown brick in Flemish bond
with flat arches of dark red gauged brick, stone copings and
sills; renewed plain tile roof and end brick stacks with
oversailing courses and pots; timber framing to internal walls.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 3 first-floor windows. First floor has 6/6
flush sashes; second floor has outer 3/6 flush sashes, to centre
a blind opening painted to resemble 3/6 sash; all with flat
arches. Crowning low coped parapet. Ground floor has continuous
shop front: end entrances, that to right a 4-panel part-glazed
door with lower flush panels, 2 entrances to left have lower
flush panels and upper glazing; central glazed windows with
glazing bars and panelled aprons, pilasters between windows and
to ends, frieze and dentil cornice.
INTERIOR: both houses retain closed-string dogleg staircases with
turned bulbous bulb-on-onion balusters and moulded handrails;
both retain exposed purlins; party-wall has rectangular framing.
House to right (No.49) retains some 2-panel doors.
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-: 200).

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26669443

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