Description

WORCESTER

SO8455SE FRIAR STREET
620-1/12/250 (East side)
22/05/54 No.28

GV II

House, now offices. Late C18 with later alterations.
Reddish-orange brick in Flemish bond with stone sills, cornice
and doorcase; concealed roof with left end brick stack with
oversailing course and pots; lead hopper and cast-iron
boot-scraper. 3 storeys, 3 first-floor windows. Moulded
plinth. 6/6 sashes throughout in plain reveals and with flat
arches of gauged brick and sills. Entrance at right:
6-raised-and-fielded-panel door has fanlight with decorative
petal glazing bars in doorcase with three-quarter-engaged
Doric columns and open pediment with guttae. boot-scraper to
left of entrance. Crowning frieze and moulded cornice; coped
parapet. Rain-hopper to left and fall pipe.
INTERIOR: noted as retaining original joinery and plasterwork.
HISTORICAL NOTE: during the C18 Foregate Street was known as
'the mall' and Tymbs' Worcester Guide of 1802 notes, 'the
Foregate Street itself, by being well paved and sufficiently
broad to admit a full circulation of air seems to be generally
resorted to as a fashionable promenade.'
The Shire Hall, Statue of Queen Victoria, City Museum and
Library, and Nos 15, 19, 22, 23, 24, 28, Nos 33-46
(consecutive) and No.49, Foregate Street (qqv) form a
significant group.
(Worcestershire Historical Society Occasional: Papers:
Whitehead D: Urban Renewal and Suburban Growth: The Shaping of
Georgian Worcester: 1989-: 12; Tymbs: Worcester Guide:
Worcester: 1802-: 60).

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26669233

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
• 
  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
• 
  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
• 
  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)