51, BROAD STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1063876
Date first listed:: 22-May-1954
List Entry Name:: 51, BROAD STREET
Statutory Address:: 51, BROAD STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1063876
Date first listed:: 22-May-1954
Date of most recent amendment:: 27-Jun-2001
List Entry Name:: 51, BROAD STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 51, 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:: 51, 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:: SO8484754945

Details

WORCESTER

SO8454NE BROAD STREET 620-1/16/124 (South side) 22/5/54 No.51 (Formerly Listed as: BROAD STREET (South side) Nos.51, 52 AND 53)

GV II

Probably house and shop, now shop with flat over. Early C19, possibly with earlier origins and with later additions and alterations including c1980s ground-floor shop front. Brownish-red brick in Flemish bond with stone architraves and cornices; concealed roof and brick end stacks with oversailing courses and pots. 4 storeys, 3 first-floor windows. First and second floors have 6/6 sashes, taller to first floor, all in plain reveals and with sills, all in tooled architraves, those to first floor also have frieze and cornice. Third floor has 3/3 sashes with flat arches of gauged brick. Stepped cyma-moulded cornice over second floor; further cornice over third floor and low coped parapet. Ground floor has renewed shop front in classical style. INTERIOR ground floor altered, 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 (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), 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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Legacy System number:: 488607
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.