Description

WORCESTER

SO8554NW FRIAR STREET
620-1/17/299 (East side)
22/05/54 No.43

GV II

Formerly known as: No.9 SIDBURY.
House, now shop. Dated 1642 on plaque, with stuccoing to front
facade and re-roofing c1820-30. For Richard Hodgkins, tallow
chandler. Timber frame with painted stucco to front facade,
brick to rear and with slate roof. Two and a half storeys with
cellar, 2 bays. 2 bays deep. Jettied first floor and upper
stage; bressumer beams have ovolo, hollow and ovolo moulding,
the upper beam is on corbels. The upper storey has small box
frames. Bulge to right at first floor indicates the position
of a main post. First floor has long, 8-light mullion and
transom window with chamfered mullions and transoms and sill
on corbels. Date plaque to front has carved dragons. Entrance
a plank door to left. Shop front has two -pane windows on
plinths, canted in to central glazed shop entrance.
INTERIOR: ground floor wall to left has exposed square panels
of timber framing, to right an exposed panel of wattle and
daub; chamfered spine beam and cross beam. Wide floorboards.
First floor has exposed square panels of timber framing; cross
beam on jowled post at rear; fireplace at right with chamfered
bressumer; 2-fielded-panel door and plank door to attic.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the inventory of Richard Hodgkins, tallow
chandler, lists the following rooms: 'forestreete chamber,
studdy, chamber over the kitchen, toploft, kitchen, buttery,
sellar, washhouse, workhouse. Value ,135.
(Hughes, P.M.: Worcester. Buildings and the Building Trade
1540-1650. PhD: Birmingham University: 1990-: 442-43).

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26669277

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