Description

SO8455SE
620-1/12/610
20/09/73

WORCESTER
THE FOREGATE
(East side)
No.13, 14 AND 15
The Hop Market
(Formerly Listed as:
THE FOREGATE
(East side)
Nos.14 AND 15
The Hop Market Hotel)

GV
II

Hotel and bank, now shops and offices. Dated 1900 with later
alterations and conversions to shops c1980. Architect said to
be Alfred B Rowe (of Henry Rowe and Son). Red brick and
terracotta with concealed roof. French chateau and Tudor-style
elements. L-plan with inner courtyard. Three storeys with
attics, seven bays to main facade (The Foregate) and six bays
to left return on Sansome Street. Main facade: Doric pilasters
between bays to each floor, those to second floor have
capitals incorporated into modillion cornice. Arcaded eaves
band. Through first and second floors are bows to second,
fourth and sixth bays with central round-arched lights with
casement windows and fanlights with radial glazing bars
between transomed lights, all in tooled architraves. To
alternate bays on first floor are 4-light windows, with Ionic
column-on-vase mullions and transoms, window at left is a
segmental bow; above these to second floor are 3-round-arched
windows with continuous entablature and Ionic columns on
plinths between. Bands between floors have carved panels to
bows and 'HOP MARKET / COMMERCIAL / HOTEL / BANK' to alternate
bays. Attic dormers with shaped pedimental features and gables
with shaped pediments with scrolls, urns and finials. Curved
angle at left has similar 2-light fenestration and is crowned
by domed cupola with detached columns supporting broken
entablature with scrolls above. Ground floor has
elliptically-arched carriageway to third bay and entrance with
segmental pediment on brackets to seventh bay, and
fenestration similar to that on first floor. Sansome Street
elevation similar but with only one bow to fifth bay which has
on ground floor an elliptically-arched entrance with scrolled
broken pediment with putti, festoon and swag.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Pevsner describes it as having 'a dash of the
Loire ... Some Tudor touches are also noticeable'.
Nos 11-15 (consecutive) The Foregate comprise a fine late
Victorian commercial group in a spirited Northern Renaissance
style.
A large building which occupies an important corner site at
the junctions of Sansome Street, Foregate Street, Shaw Street
and The Foregate, this is a significant streetscape feature,
having group value and helping to frame the view to the High
Street.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Worcestershire:
Harmondsworth: 1968-1985: 331-2).

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26669607

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Recommended Books

• 
  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
• 
  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
• 
  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)