Description

WORCESTER

SO8554SW SIDBURY
620-1/20/524 (North East side)
05/04/71 No.57

GV II

House or two houses, now café. c1500 with later additions and
alterations including mid C19 shop front. Timber-framed with
whitewashed brick facade and renewed plain tile roof; central
brick stack.
PLAN: 2 integral ranges, both gable end to the street, one and a
half bays in length, immediately behind and parallel to the
street another range.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 3 bays. End posts concealed to ground floor,
and central post at first floor. First floor has 2 casement
windows in near-flush frames. 2 gables have exposed collar and
tie beams with close studding; exposed tier of clasped purlins;
original barge boards with carved quatrefoils. Jetty bracket to
left.
Ground floor: shop front has end pilasters and continuous moulded
cornice, plate glass windows with multi-pane overlights and
chamfered mullions on panelled apron to right, replaced apron to
left. Right entrance a plank door with further similar pilaster.
Off-centre left shop entrance canted in to double, part-glazed
doors and blind overlight. Further entrance to right gives access
to passageway: plank door with end pilaster. Range to rear has
exposed timber-framing to rear wall.
INTERIOR: transverse beam to ground floor; further exposed beams
and rafters may be later imports; said to have timber-framing to
first floor. Side passage noted as having exposed timber framing.
HISTORICAL NOTE: first known tenant probably Richard Walker,
1544. The property of John Chetle during C17 but not inhabited by
him.
Nos 57-69 (odd) Sidbury (qqv) from a group.
(Hughes P: Buildings and the Building Trade in Worcester
1540-1650: PhD thesis: 1990-: 442).

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26669576

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Recommended Books

• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)