Description

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.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26669630

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Recommended Books

• 
  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
• 
  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
• 
  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)