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Latitude: 52.1917 / 52°11'30"N
Longitude: -2.2209 / 2°13'15"W
OS Eastings: 384994
OS Northings: 254852
OS Grid: SO849548
Mapcode National: GBR 1G4.HBV
Mapcode Global: VH92T.G57P
Plus Code: 9C4V5QRH+MJ
Entry Name: 83 and 84, High Street
Listing Date: 22 May 1954
Last Amended: 27 June 2001
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1389910
English Heritage Legacy ID: 488861
ID on this website: 101389910
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 Nicholas and All Saints
Church of England Diocese: Worcester
Tagged with: Building
WORCESTER
SO8454NE HIGH STREET
620-1/16/352 (West side)
22/05/54 Nos.83 AND 84
Formerly Listed as:
HIGH STREET
(West side)
Nos.83, 83A AND 84)
GV II
House, now shop. Early C18 with origins in the mid C17 and with
later additions and alterations including c1990s ground-floor
shop front. Pinkish-red brick in Flemish bond with stucco
keystones and timber sills and cornice; plain tile roof. 3
storeys, 6 first-floor windows. First-floor has 1/1 flush sashes.
3-course first-floor band. Second-floor has 6/6 flush sashes. All
windows with flat arches of gauged brick and raised keystones
embellished with foliate motifs; all keystones have cornices.
Renewed crowning cornice. Ground floor: glazed shop front has
timber columns, left end and central lazed entrances.
INTERIOR: first-floor noted as retaining original joinery
including panelled shutters, ground floor renewed; fine early C18
staircase remains on second-floor within stair turret, large
cross-section moulded handrail, substantial turned vase
balusters, ball finials; attic retains interrupted tie-beam
trusses to front range which have been ut back to accommodate the
C18 refronting in brick. 2-panel door retained in attic as is an
out-of-situ section of early C19 balustrading with slender turned
balusters with knops and turned newel posts, a small section of
dado moulding in the stair turret on the second-floor indicates
where this later stair had replaced the C18 stair on the lower
floors. The rear wing also contains two C17 roof trusses and some
framing. (Dr Pat Hughes: Nos. 83/84 High Street, Worcester:
1999-).
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