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Latitude: 52.1938 / 52°11'37"N
Longitude: -2.2181 / 2°13'5"W
OS Eastings: 385187
OS Northings: 255087
OS Grid: SO851550
Mapcode National: GBR 1G4.J07
Mapcode Global: VH92T.H4Q1
Plus Code: 9C4V5QVJ+GQ
Entry Name: 18 and 20, Silver Street
Listing Date: 8 March 1974
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1390177
English Heritage Legacy ID: 489147
ID on this website: 101390177
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
Tagged with: Building
WORCESTER
SO8555SW SILVER STREET
620-1/13/540 (East side)
08/03/74 Nos.18 AND 20
II
Former Worcester Infirmary and attached building, now shop and
attached building. 1745 with later additions and alterations
including stuccoing of front facade and shop front of late C19,
mid C20 re-roofing, and renovations to shop front c1980s. Stucco
over brick to front facade and pinkish-red brick to left return;
corrugated asbestos roof; rear range of pinkish-red brick with
some timber-framing and plain tile roof.
PLAN: truncated U-plan with infill at rear.
EXTERIOR: main range of 2 storeys, 5 + 4 first-floor windows.
First floor has casement windows in near-flush metal frames.
Ground floor: central entrance a 6-raised-and-fielded-panel door
in fluted architrave with lion masks to angles, pulvinated frieze
and cornice. Shop fronts have end pilasters and to doorways
surmounted by upshots and with continuous frieze. Plate-glass
windows and glazed entrances. The rear range of 2 storeys and
attic, 3 first-floor windows. Square panels of timber framing to
gable end. Remains of sash and casement windows; ground floor has
boarded openings.
INTERIOR: front part has axial beam with ovolo chamfer to left
part and 3 transverse chamfered beams to right part.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the Worcester Royal Infirmary first opened in
this building in c1745.
(Worcestershire Historical Society Occasional Papers: Lane J:
Worcester Infirmary in the Eighteenth Century: 1992-: 2-6).
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