Description

WORCESTER

SO8454NE HIGH STREET
620-1/16/339 (East side)
19/08/99 Nos.59 AND 60

GV II

Formerly known as: Cadena Café HIGH STREET.
Built as The (new) Central Coffee Tavern and shops, with offices
over, now shops and offices. Plans dated 1901, with later
alterations including renovations of 1997. Architect, Lewis
Sheppard of Worcester. Reddish-orange brick in Flemish bond with
terracotta dressings, including floor bands, horizontal banding
to first floor, architraves, parapet, turret and gable; plain
tile roof, with copper to dome. Queen Anne Revival style.
Occupying a corner site, the building has a continuous design
with full-height bow to angle crowned with a turret, and with
wide attic gables to outer ends. High Street facade: 4 storeys, 2
first-floor windows plus bow. Between all bays from first floor
are full-height pilaster strips, those to right continuing as
plinths to right gable surmounted by urns. Ground floor: entrance
to angle, boarded up at time of review but with moulded,
round-arched surround and cambered-arched hood with acanthus
scroll moulding and shield, the hoodmould continues as
ovolo-moulded continuous cornice over ground floor. Otherwise
ground floor covered with boarding. First floor: continuous sill
band, mullion and transom windows, those to angles are curved on
plan and have engaged Doric columns between and with shield and
foliate scrolls to blind lunettes. Otherwise a pair of 2-light
and a row of three 2-light mullion-and-transom windows with
pilaster strips between and similar shield and scroll moulding
over. Continuous cornice over first floor acts as sill band to
second-floor windows; bow has three 2-light mullion-and-transomed
windows, all with pulvinated friezes and cornices. To third floor
the turret has three 2-light windows and moulded band over with
foliate scrolls and masks; modillion cornice. Otherwise two
single lights with eared architraves and three 2-light windows.
Continuous frieze and dentil cornice, surmounted by open
balustrade between turret and attic gable at right, which has
3-light window in pilastered surround and with shield over. Attic
dormers behind parapet. Similar facade to left return (St
Swithin's Street) with, to each of the upper storeys, two 3-light
and two 2-light mullion and transom windows.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORIC NOTE: Lewis Sheppard was the diocesan architect for
Worcester c1893-1905 and was also responsible for Laslett
Almshouses, Friar Street. The Central Coffee Tavern became the
Central Temperance Hotel and Restaurant, then a Cadena Café. A
richly ornamented example of Edwardian commercial architecture,
which occupies a significant corner site, helping to frame the
view to the High Street and St Swithin's Street.
(Berrows Journal, 12 June 1915).

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26669321

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