Description

SO8455SE
620-1/12/262

WORCESTER
FOREGATE STREET (West side)
No.45

(Formerly listed under FRIAR STREET)

22/05/54

GV
II
House, now shop with offices. Mid C18 with later additions and alterations including c1970s ground-floor shop front. Three storeys with attic, three first-floor windows. Reddish-brown brick in Flemish bond with flat arches of dark red gauged brick, ashlar keystones and renewed timber cornice and plain tile roof. First and second floors have 6/6 flush sashes with roll-and-triple-step moulded sills; flat arches and keystones, those outer ones to first floor have incised moulding and outer keystones to second floor are fluted, the central keystones have foliate embellishments, all have cornices. Wide modillion eaves cornice. Two gabled roof dormers with casement windows. Ground-floor has plate-glass shop front and renewed, glazed entrance
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INTERIOR: not inspected.

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 Q26669246

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)