46 AND 47, BROAD STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1063873
Date first listed:: 22-May-1954
List Entry Name:: 46 AND 47, BROAD STREET
Statutory Address:: 46 AND 47, BROAD STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1063873
Date first listed:: 22-May-1954
List Entry Name:: 46 AND 47, BROAD STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 46 AND 47, 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:: 46 AND 47, 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:: SO8482154936

Details

WORCESTER

SO8454NE BROAD STREET 620-1/16/121 (South side) 22/5/54 Nos.46 AND 47

GV II

2 houses probably originally with shops, now shops with flats. Numbered right to left, described left to right. Probably c1750 with later additions and alterations including ground-floor shop front c1980s. Reddish-orange brick in Flemish bond with stone sills and keystones; stuccoed to ground floor at left; concealed roof and massive brick stack at left with oversailing pots. 4 storeys, 4 first-floor windows. First and second floors have 6/6 sashes, third floor has 3/3 sashes, all in flush frames and sith sills and flat arches of gauged brick with central keystones; keystones have incised motif to ground and third floors and flutes to second floor, those to first and second floors have cornices. Ground floor retains horizontal rustication at left, left entrance a part-glazed door with lower raised and flush panel in plain reveals and with tooled architrave. Plate glass windows with timber mullion and transom. Shop front to right has end pilasters and plate-glass window on plinth and with fascia. INTERIOR 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 (qv). It contained the business premises of a number of important traders and at least two inns'. Several houses in 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, (qqv). (Hughes P: No.57 Broad Street, Worcester: Report for Worcester City Council: 1991-).

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 488604
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.