Description

WORCESTER

SO8554NW MEALCHEAPEN STREET
620-1/17/442 (South side)
05/04/71 No.23

GV II

Shop and house. Early C19 probably with earlier origins and
later additions and alterations including c1970/80s
ground-floor shop front. For William Thompson, grocer.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 2 first-floor windows. Reddish-brown brick
in Flemish bond with rubbed red brick flat arches; hipped plain
tile roof, partly-rebuilt tall right side stack with
oversailing course; cast-iron balconettes and timber cornice.
First floor has plate-glass windows. Second floor has 3/6 flush
sashes and balconettes with 2 levels of rails. All windows have
flat arches of gauged brick; renewed first-floor sills.
Crowning modillion cornice. Ground floor has plate-glass shop
front which extends across No.22 (not included).
INTERIOR: ground floor retains no evidence of original plan
form. Lowered ceiling obscures evidence of any original
plasterwork. Hughes notes that this retains the upper part of a
Regency staircase.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Mealcheapen Street flourished particularly in
the C16 and early C17, predominantly as a retail outlet;
Hughes: 'it was the proximity to the Cornmarket that gave the
street much of its prosperity and led to the establishment of a
number of large inns.'
All the listed buildings in Mealcheapen Street form a group
with the listed buildings in Cornmarket and with Church of St
Swithun, Church Street (qqv).
(Hughes P: Buildings and the Building Trade in Worcester
1540-1650: PhD thesis: 1990-: 199-200, 226).

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26669431

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