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Latitude: 52.1906 / 52°11'26"N
Longitude: -2.2188 / 2°13'7"W
OS Eastings: 385139
OS Northings: 254733
OS Grid: SO851547
Mapcode National: GBR 1G4.PVL
Mapcode Global: VH92T.H6CH
Plus Code: 9C4V5QRJ+7F
Entry Name: 7, Friar Street
Listing Date: 22 May 1954
Last Amended: 27 June 2001
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1389838
English Heritage Legacy ID: 488789
ID on this website: 101389838
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: Building
WORCESTER
SO8554NW FRIAR STREET
620-1/17/281 (East side)
22/05/54 No.7
(Formerly Listed as:
FRIAR STREET
(East side)
No.7
Thompson's Trust
(Worcester
Archaeological Society's
Library))
GV II
House, now hair salon on both floors. c1660 with later
additions and alterations including restoration of 1950's.
Possibly for one Richard Smith. Timber-frame with rendered
brick infill under a plain clay tile roof. No visible stacks.
Plan: was simply two rooms on ground-floor, now one. Note
there is no external wall to the south, the building taking
its support from the Greyfriars (qv).
TIMBER-FRAME: large square panels, each floor two panels high,
jettied first-floor with heavily moulded bressumer beam.
Console brackets to oriel windows. Roof gablet is
weather-protection for projecting re-used beam to central
truss.
Symmetrical elevation, 2 storey, 2 first-floor windows with
large gables over. Mullion and transom windows of 4-lights,
leaded with rectangular quarries. Similar but shorter windows
to the ground-floor. Central door of oak planks with chamfered
cover strips.
INTERIOR: timber-frame exposed during 1950's restoration, when
C17 staircase was imported.
(Worcester Streets: Hughes P and Molyneux N: Friar Street:
Worcester: 1984-: 2-5).
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