Description

WORCESTER

SO8555SW ST MARTIN'S STREET, LOWESMOOR
620-1/13/586 The Old Vinegar Works
08/03/74 (Formerly Listed as:
LOWESMOOR
(South side)
The Old Vinegar Factory)

GV II

Also known as: The Old Vinegar Factory PHEASANT STREET.
Warehouse. c1870 with later additions and alterations.
Pinkish-red brick with gault brick dressings, ashlar cornice and
capitals and slate and glass roof. Rectangular on plan. Single
tall storey, 13 x 11 window-bays. From first-stage band are gault
brick pilasters with ashlar caps, stepped frieze and modillion
cornice, low coped parapet. End bays have blind openings,
otherwise 20-pane segmental-arched windows in metal frames, with
voussoir arch of alternate red and gault brick. Lower stage
obscured to long side by temporary structures. Returns have
pedimented gables and similar treatment, with red brick pilasters
to lower stage and similar windows, with centrel plank doors;
5-stepped-light, round-arched windows with gault brick surrounds
in tympanum. Apex of roof is glazed.
INTERIOR: roof has two levels of metal collars and x-braces.
HISTORICAL NOTE: This building formed part of the Hill Evans
Vinegar Works 1830-c1960). It would have contained large wooden
vats for storage of vinegar. "The filling and dispatching room is
an enormous hall...it is one of the largest single rooms in the
kingdom....the great vats...are probably the most conspicuous and
impressive parts of the equipment. One of these vats, standing
among many of only slightly smaller size is 100 feet in
circumference and 32 feet high having a capacity of 114,821
gallons."- 'Worcester Daily Times', 1903.
(Worcester Daily Times: Not known: Worcester at Work: Worcester:
1903-: 5).

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26669540

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Recommended Books

• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990