Description

WORCESTER

SO8554NW NEW STREET
620-1/17/450 (East side)
05/04/71 No.10

GV II

House, now shop. Probably late C16 with mid C19 refronting and
C20 shop front. Timber frame with pinkish-red brick facade in
Flemish bond, ashlar copings and lintels, range to rear in
narrow, hand-made pinkish-red brick; plain tile roof.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 2 first-floor windows with ranges to rear.
2/2 sashes in plain reveals and with flat splayed arches, those
to 2nd floor have renewed stone sills. Ground floor: at left a
cambered-arched opening to Nash's Passage, then renewed shop
front with panelled plinth, glazing and off-centre part-glazed
door. Facade to Nash's Passage has exposed square panels of
timber framing.
INTERIOR: square panels of timber frame and jowled posts;
exposed chamfered trenched purlins, collar beam. Remains of a
framed internal wall. Chamfered beams with ogeed stops. Two
stanchions, quatrefoil on section.
HISTORICAL NOTE: New Street had changed its name from the
medieval Glover Street by 1523. Hughes: 'New Street, in its C16
and C17 phase, was a street of dwelling-houses with workshops
behind.'
(Hughes P: Buildings and the Building Trade in Worcester
1540-1650: PhD thesis: 1990-: 200).

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26669435

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