Description

WORCESTER

SO8455NE THE TYTHING
620-1/8/642 (West side)
08/03/74 Nos.48 AND 49

GV II

2 houses, now shops, part of terrace. C17, re-fronted mid C18
with later additions and alterations. Painted brick with stone
details; plain clay tile roof, that to right raised and
hipped; tiles to dormer.
Left-house of 2-storeys and attics, right-house 3-storeys. 5
(3:2) first-floor windows. Brick detailing includes dentilled
eaves; projecting plain band below eaves to left-hand house
only. Stone detailing includes incised capped keystones o
right-pair of first-floor windows; sills. All windows in
near-flush frames, 3 to left are 1/1 under segmental brick
arches, pair to right are 6/6 under flat gauged brick arches;
second-floor window is 8/8. Central dormer with 1/1 sash to
left house. Timber shopfronts to ground-floor inserted c1987.
INTERIOR: No. 48 retains some exposed beams and fine C17
staircase on upper floors with bulbous turned balusters, heavy
section handrail and newel posts with ball finials. No. 49 not
inspected

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26669638

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Recommended Books

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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper
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  For the Record
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)