Description

WORCESTER

SO8554NW CORNMARKET
620-1/17/201 (East side)
22/05/54 Nos.6-9 (Consecutive)
(Formerly Listed as:
CORNMARKET
Nos.6 AND 7)
(Formerly Listed as:
CORNMARKET
Nos.8 AND 9)

GV II

4 houses, now shop. Numbered right to left, described left to
right. C16 origins with later additions and alterations
including frontage c1735 to right part and early C20
ground-floor shop front and probable reproduction of front
facade to left part. Pinkish-red brick to left part with
pinkish-brown brick to right part, all in Flemish bond; stucco
keystones, aprons and pilasters and flat arches of red gauged
brick; plain tile roof with tall brick stack to right with
oversailing course and pots. Range to left of 3 storeys, 7
first-floor windows and range to right of 2 storeys, 4
first-floor windows. Left range: end pilasters through first
and second floors with horizontal rustication; first and
second floors have 6/6 flush sashes with flat arches and
central keystones with cornices and moulded sills (roll and 2
steps), to second-floor windows are fluted, segmental aprons.
Crowning moulded cornice and coped parapet. Right range: first
floor has 6/6 flush sashes with cambered-arched heads and
under cambered arches. Ground floor has continuous shop
frontage: end pilasters and between windows have festoons;
frieze and cornice; plate-glass windows, frieze with glazing
bars; canted in towards off-centre right entrance with
replacement glass door. Further entrance to passage at right a
plank door.
INTERIOR: to left part a curved narrow-openwell staircase has
stick balusters and wreathed handrail; remains of a timber
post and wall plate; chamfered beams with ogee stop. Right
part retains timber-framing: 4 posts and square panels of
timber-framing with wattle and daub to transverse passage at
ground floor. First floor has jowled post and a second exposed
post. Exposed beams. Roof timbers to right part said to
remain.
HISTORICAL NOTE: this was a house until the early C20; it has
been a furniture store since then. The E side of this
property adjoins one length of the C14 city wall, City Walls
Road (qv item 714).
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner: N: Worcestershire:
Harmondsworth: 1968-1985: 329).

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26669181

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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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