Description

WORCESTER

SO8454NE NORTH QUAY
620-1/16/464 (East side)
08/03/74 Severn View Hotel
Formerly Listed as:
NORTH QUAY
(East side)
Severn View Hotel Public
House)

II

2 houses, now hotel. Mid/late C18 to easternmost dwelling with
c1820-1840 dwelling adjoining to west and later additions and
alterations including late C19 range to north-west, ground floor
alterations c1950s and renovations c1990s. Pinkish-brown brick to
rear, otherwise stuccoed, with hipped slate roof to west building
and hipped plain tile roof to east; three end stacks to east
range, tall rear stack to west range, all with oversailing
courses.
PLAN: L-plan altogether, the hotel occupies a corner site with
the earlier house facing Newport Street (east range) and the
later house built at right-angles to face North Quay (west
range).
EXTERIOR: range to west: 3 storeys, 3 first-floor windows with
single-storey, single bay range to left. First and second floors
have 6/6 sashes, taller to first floor, all in plain reveals and
with sills. Modillion eaves band. Central entrance a renewed
plank door, renewed casement windows with leaded lights. To left
range a 4-flush-beaded-panel door. Right return: 2 first-floor
windows and similar fenestration. Range to east: 3 storeys with
attics, 4 first-floor windows. 2/2 horned sashes in near-flush
frames throughout. 2 segmentally-arched roof dormers with
casement windows. Off-centre left entrance: renewed plank door.
Otherwise ground floor has casement windows with leaded lights as
before.
INTERIORS: ground floor opened into large space and original
features mainly removed. Upper floors retain original joinery and
plasterwork. Range to west has dog-leg staircase with stick
balusters and carved tread ends. Moulded plasterwork to some
rooms. Fireplace to first-floor front room has white marble
chimneypiece on carved corbels with 1870s tiled surround.
Panelled shutters. To second floor a cast-iron grate. Boxed
beams.
RANGE TO EAST: open newel, closed string staircase to full height
with rod-on-vase balusters and shaped handrail.
Chamfered axial beams. Panelled shutters, panelled aprons to some
windows at rear. Exposed beams and rafters to attic.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the house to west is said to have been built for
an undertaker. The house to east became an ale-house before 1801
and during the C19 it was known as the Hope and Anchor. The house
to west is thought to have been built on the edge of the city
walls.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26669447

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Recommended Books

• 
  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
• 
  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
• 
  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey