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Latitude: 52.1932 / 52°11'35"N
Longitude: -2.2198 / 2°13'11"W
OS Eastings: 385073
OS Northings: 255020
OS Grid: SO850550
Mapcode National: GBR 1G4.HM3
Mapcode Global: VH92T.G4VJ
Plus Code: 9C4V5QVJ+73
Entry Name: Queen Elizabeth House
Listing Date: 22 May 1954
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1390238
English Heritage Legacy ID: 489209
ID on this website: 101390238
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: House
SO8555SW
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WORCESTER,
TRINITY STREET (East side),
Queen Elizabeth House
22/05/54
II*
House, now offices. Early/mid C16 with later additions and alterations. Comprehensive external repairs including re-roofing 1995. Timber-framed with painted rendered infill panels, some wattle and daub. Plain clay tile roof with paired projecting gables over gallery. Lead-lined timber gutters. Rectangular plan of 2 bays. Part of southern ground-floor bay was a through walkway. External jettied gallery to first-floor of west elevation. 2 storeys. 2 first-floor windows. Timber-framing mainly square panels, four high to wall-plate; close-studding to left ground-floor of west elevation; tension braces; infilled square panels form gallery balustrade on moulded bressumer; collar and queen-posts to left main gable, similar plus V-struts to gallery gables; double purlin roof, one set clasped by strutted collar. First-floor windows are 4-light with diamond-leaded casements; boarded door to left and right of elevation accessing gallery. 2-light leaded window to left ground-floor, boarded door to centre, open walkway to right. Left-return has paired 4-light diamond leaded windows to each floor.
INTERIOR: exposed framing to ground-floor including ceilings, plain chamfers to bridging beams; modern staircase to gallery; 2 rooms to first-floor, open to underside of roof, framing to walls and ceilings exposed, boarded doors.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Queen Elizabeth House was jacked up and moved to the present location in 1891. Its original site was approx. 10 metres to the north, the walkway straddling the eastern part of The Trinity. The reputed visit by Queen Elizabeth I in 1575 is not corroborated, a more likely connection is thought to be via an endowment to the Trinity hospital, school and almshouses. It has been suggested that this was the
schoolmaster's house.
(Buildings of England: Pevsner Nikolaus and Brooks Alan: Worcestershire: Harmondsworth: 2007: 747;
Transactions of the Worcestershire Archaeological Society: Carver M O H (Editor):
Medieval Worcester - An Archaeological Framework: Worcester:1980-: P277-278;
Nicholas Molyneux, Pat Hughes, Stephen Price: Vernacular Architecture Group Spring Conference Worcestershire: 1995-: 2.13;
Tim Bridges and Charles Mundy:Worcester - A Pictorial History: West Sussex: 1996: 73 & 74).
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