Description

GLOUCESTER

SO8318NW WORCESTER STREET
844-1/8/433 (West side)
12/03/73 Nos.9-17 (Odd)
(Formerly Listed as:
WORCESTER STREET
(West side)
Nos.9 TO 29 (Odd))

GV II

Five terrace houses, now terrace with shops, offices and
flats. 1825, with C19 and C20 alterations including conversion
to shops in later C19. Brick with stone details, the fronts of
Nos 11 to 13 painted, Nos 15 & 17 stuccoed; slate roofs, brick
stacks. Double-depth block with later extensions at rear.
EXTERIOR: three storeys; on the front of the terrace on the
ground floor No.9 has a semicircular arched doorway with
fanlight and panelled door to right and C20 shop window and
doorway to left framed by late C19 pilasters and fascia with
consoles at each end; other units have C20 shop-fronts of
various dates; at first-floor sill level a continuous stone
string course partly hidden by C20 shop fascias; on the upper
floors each former house of two bays and the whole front
treated as an arcade with a segmental arched recess to each
bay; above the arcading a continuous, stone-coped parapet; in
the arcade recess to each bay on the first floor a sash with
glazing bars (3x4 panes), all in openings with flat-arched
head of five raised-and-stepped voussoirs, and similarly in
each bay on the second floor a sash with glazing bars (3x3
panes), all in openings with brick flat arches and projecting
stone sills.
INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SO8336218796

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26561925

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)