52, BROAD STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1063877
Date first listed:: 22-May-1954
List Entry Name:: 52, BROAD STREET
Statutory Address:: 52, BROAD STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1063877
Date first listed:: 22-May-1954
Date of most recent amendment:: 27-Jun-2001
List Entry Name:: 52, BROAD STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 52, 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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: 52, 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:: SO8485554947

Details

WORCESTER

SO8454NE BROAD STREET 620-1/16/125 (South side) 22/5/54 No.52 (Formerly Listed as: BROAD STREET (South side) Nos.51, 52 AND 53)

GV II

Probably house and shop, now building society. Facade c1820, probably with earlier origins and with later additions and alterations including c1980s to ground-floor shop front. Stucco over brick with concealed roof. 3 storeys, 3 first-floor windows. First and second floor sill bands. 2/2 horned sashes in near-flush frames with tooled architraves, those to first floor have friezes and pediments. Crowning low coped parapet. Horizontal rustication to ground floor. End and off-centre left entrances: renewed 6-panel doors, that to centre part-glazed. Renewed windows between chanelled horizontal pilaster strips. INTERIOR altered to ground floor, 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 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 and 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-).

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 488608
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

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