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The Old Vinegar Works

A Grade II Listed Building in Worcester, Worcestershire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.1942 / 52°11'38"N

Longitude: -2.2159 / 2°12'57"W

OS Eastings: 385337

OS Northings: 255124

OS Grid: SO853551

Mapcode National: GBR 1G4.JKN

Mapcode Global: VH92T.J3WS

Plus Code: 9C4V5QVM+MJ

Entry Name: The Old Vinegar Works

Listing Date: 8 March 1974

Last Amended: 12 June 2001

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1390121

English Heritage Legacy ID: 489091

ID on this website: 101390121

Location: Worcester, Worcestershire, WR1

County: Worcestershire

District: Worcester

Electoral Ward/Division: Cathedral

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Worcester

Traditional County: Worcestershire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Worcestershire

Church of England Parish: Worcester, St Martin's in the Cornmarket with St Swithun and St Paul

Church of England Diocese: Worcester

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WORCESTER

SO8555SW ST MARTIN'S STREET, LOWESMOOR
620-1/13/586 The Old Vinegar Works
08/03/74 (Formerly Listed as:
LOWESMOOR
(South side)
The Old Vinegar Factory)

GV II

Also known as: The Old Vinegar Factory PHEASANT STREET.
Warehouse. c1870 with later additions and alterations.
Pinkish-red brick with gault brick dressings, ashlar cornice and
capitals and slate and glass roof. Rectangular on plan. Single
tall storey, 13 x 11 window-bays. From first-stage band are gault
brick pilasters with ashlar caps, stepped frieze and modillion
cornice, low coped parapet. End bays have blind openings,
otherwise 20-pane segmental-arched windows in metal frames, with
voussoir arch of alternate red and gault brick. Lower stage
obscured to long side by temporary structures. Returns have
pedimented gables and similar treatment, with red brick pilasters
to lower stage and similar windows, with centrel plank doors;
5-stepped-light, round-arched windows with gault brick surrounds
in tympanum. Apex of roof is glazed.
INTERIOR: roof has two levels of metal collars and x-braces.
HISTORICAL NOTE: This building formed part of the Hill Evans
Vinegar Works 1830-c1960). It would have contained large wooden
vats for storage of vinegar. "The filling and dispatching room is
an enormous hall...it is one of the largest single rooms in the
kingdom....the great vats...are probably the most conspicuous and
impressive parts of the equipment. One of these vats, standing
among many of only slightly smaller size is 100 feet in
circumference and 32 feet high having a capacity of 114,821
gallons."- 'Worcester Daily Times', 1903.
(Worcester Daily Times: Not known: Worcester at Work: Worcester:
1903-: 5).


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