Description

WORCESTER

SO8554SW SIDBURY
620-1/20/525 (North East side)
08/03/74 No.59

GV II

House now shop with flat. C16 with later additions and
alterations including shop front and bay of c1900 and extension
to rear c1970-80. Timber framed with some wattle and daub,
stuccoed front facade and renewed plain tile roof.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, one first-floor window. First floor has
canted bay with pair of unequally-hung 6/1 between 4/1 horned
sashes and with fluted pilasters between windows and modillion
cornice which continues across eaves. Ground floor: end fluted
pilasters and raised corbels; left entrance a glazed door;
further entrance at left to passageway a
6-raised-and-fielded-panel door with blind overlight with 2
panels and moulded architrave and with further similar pilaster.
Glazed shop window on brick apron.
INTERIOR: ground floor has axial beams. Alleyway at left has
exposed panels of timber framing and main post.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Hughes notes that there are the remnants of 2
ranges parallel to the street, each with clasped purlin roofs,
apparently separated by a gap of approximately 1.5 metres.
Nos 57-69 (odd) Sidbury (qqv) form a good group.
(Hughes P: Buildings and the Building Trade in Worcester
1540-1650: PhD thesis: 1990-: 442).

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26669577

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Recommended Books

• 
  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  For the Record
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)