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Latitude: 52.1983 / 52°11'53"N
Longitude: -2.2243 / 2°13'27"W
OS Eastings: 384762
OS Northings: 255582
OS Grid: SO847555
Mapcode National: GBR 1G4.2H3
Mapcode Global: VH92T.D0FM
Plus Code: 9C4V5QXG+87
Entry Name: 33, 34 (St John's House) and 35, the Tything
Listing Date: 5 April 1971
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1390221
English Heritage Legacy ID: 489192
ID on this website: 101390221
Location: Britannia Square, 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 George with St Mary Magdalene
Church of England Diocese: Worcester
Tagged with: Architectural structure
WORCESTER
SO8455NE THE TYTHING
620-1/8/634 (West side)
05/04/71 Nos.33, 34 AND 35
St. John's House (34)
GV II
3 houses, now shops and offices, part of terrace. 1776-79 with
later additions and alterations including c1870 window
surround to No.34 to centre. Red brick with stucco detailing.
Parapetted roof with plain clay tiles to right-hand house,
concrete tile and asbestos sheet to other houses. Party-wall
stacks; that to left has oversailing detail and pots,
right-hand stack has been lowered and capped. Timber doorcase.
6 (2:2:2) first-floor windows. Stucco detailing includes
frieze, cornice and blocking course; sills; elliptical arched
heads to all 6 windows of centre house, arches are panelled
and rise from capped springer blocks and incorporate
protruding capped keystones. 1/1 arch-headed sashes to these
windows otherwise 6/6 sashes to first-floor; replacement
side-hung casements to second-floor of left-hand house, 3/3
sashes to right-hand house. Flat gauged brick arches to
windows of flanking houses, all windows in plain reveals.
Ionic-style doorcase, open pediment with mutules to right of
centre, 5-panel door, bottom pair flush-beaded, entre panel
raised and fielded, glazed upper panels with semi-circular
rched heads; fanlight with Gothic-style tracery. C20
shopfronts to left and right.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Cast-iron window boxes to 2 centre
first-floor windows.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Photographs from 1951 and 1955 show a balcony
to the right-hand house accessed by French windows at
first-floor level. There are signs of local rebuilding of the
brickwork in this area. This building also had a matching
doorcase to the centre house.
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