32, BROAD STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1063867
Date first listed:: 08-Mar-1974
List Entry Name:: 32, BROAD STREET
Statutory Address:: 32, BROAD STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1063867
Date first listed:: 08-Mar-1974
Date of most recent amendment:: 27-Jun-2001
List Entry Name:: 32, BROAD STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 32, BROAD STREET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 32, BROAD STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Worcestershire
District:: Worcester (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SO8475454920

Details

WORCESTER

SO8454NE BROAD STREET 620-1/16/115 (North side) 08/3/74 No.32 (Formerly Listed as: BROAD STREET (North side) Nos.32, 33 AND 34)

GV II

Probably house and shop, now shop with offices over. Probably 1638 for John Watts, possibly with earlier origins, and rebuilding to facade late C18; with later additions and alterations including c1980s ground-floor shop front. Reddish-orange brick in Flemish bond with dark-red gauged brick flat arches and stone sills and copings; concealed roof with end brick stacks with oversailing courses and pots. 3 storeys, 3 first-floor windows. 6/6 sashes to first and second floors, taller to first floor, and in plain reveals. Reproduction Victorian-style shop front with central glazed entrance. Further entrance incorporated at left, a 6-panel door with 3-pane overlight between pilaster strips. INTERIOR: ground floor completely renewed, otherwise not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: 'By the sixteenth century, Broad Street was second only to High Street in commercial importance. On the direct route through the city from the (Worcester) Bridge, it contained the business premises of a number of important traders and at least two inns'. Several houses on Broad Street are known to have C17 and earlier origins (Nos 32, 40, 41 and 57 (qqv)).

All the listed buildings in Broad Street form a significant group: Nos 10, 10A, 11 with the Crown Inn, 12, 18, 19, 29, 32-36 (consecutive), 40, 41, 43-49 (consecutive), 51-63 (consecutive), 69, 70 and Church of All Saints Church, (qqv). Nos 29, 32-36 (consecutive) and the Church form a further group with Nos 2-22 (consecutive) Bridge Street with No.2 Quay Street (qqv). (Hughes P: Buildings and the Building Trade in Worcester 1540-1650: PhD thesis: 1990-: 422-3; Hughes P: No.57 Broad Street, Worcester: Report for Worcester City Council: 1991-).

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Legacy System number:: 488598
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.