Description

WORCESTER

SO8455SE THE CROSS
620-1/12/601 (West side)
22/05/54 No.20

GV II

House, now shop with offices. c1720 with later additions and
alterations including 1960s attic dormers and 1980s shop
fronts. Reddish-brown brick in Flemish bond with ashlar
quoins, sills and cornice, stuccoed keystones and parapet and
plain tile roof, hipped at right and with rear brick stack;
timber shop front; stucco to ground floor, right return. 3
storeys with attic, 2 first-floor windows. First and second
floors have 8/8 flush sashes with flat arches of gauged brick
and fluted keystones with cornice, sills. From first floor are
quoins. Crowning parapet with dentil cornice. Ground floor has
renewed plate-glass shop front and glazed central door in
period style surround. Right return has 4 first-floor windows.
End quoins and cornice as front facade. First and second
floors have one 8/8 flush sash, then 6/6 flush sashes with
flat arches and keystones as front facade. To left end the
shop front continues from front facade, then the ground floor
is stuccoed with horizontal rustication. Right end entrance a
glazed door.
INTERIOR: retains original plasterwork and joinery including
moulded cornices and panelled doors with panelled reveals.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Occupies a good corner site with Angel Street
at the unction with The Foregate and St Nicholas Street. Nos
20 and 21 (qv), The Cross form a significant group of listed
buildings at this city centre crossroads together with Church
of St Nicholas and Lloyds Bank, The Cross (qqv) and Nos 1, 1A
and 3, Angel Street (qv) together with Nos 11 and 12, Foregate
(qqv) and Little Venice Restaurant, St Nicholas Street (qv).
They also have good group value with other listed buildings in
The Cross (qqv), and all forming an important visual framework
for this entrance to Worcester city centre.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26669601

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