Description

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).

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26669262

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Recommended Books

• 
  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
• 
  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
• 
  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
• 
  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
• 
  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)