54, BROAD STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1063879
Date first listed:: 05-Apr-1971
List Entry Name:: 54, BROAD STREET
Statutory Address:: 54, BROAD STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1063879
Date first listed:: 05-Apr-1971
List Entry Name:: 54, BROAD STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 54, 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:: 54, 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:: SO8486754950

Details

WORCESTER

SO8454NE BROAD STREET 620-1/16/127 (South side) 05/04/71 No.54

GV II

Probably house and shop, now shop and offices over. Mid C18, possibly with earlier origins and with later additions and alterations including ground-floor shop front c1980s. Reddish-orange brick in Flemish bond with flat arches of rubbed red brick, painted ashlar quoins, sills, keystones and cornices; plain tile roof with tall brick stack at left with oversailing course and pots. 3 storeys with attic, 3 first-floor windows. First floor has 2/1 sashes and second floor has 2/2 sashes, all in near-flush frames and with shaped sills, flat arches and fluted keystones with cornices. Quoins from first-floor to full height, replaced to ground floor. Ground floor has plate glass shop front and glazed door. Moulded cornice, coped parapet. Attic dormer has casement window and hipped roof. INTERIOR: ground floor renewed; original joinery includes raised-and-fielded-panel shutters to first 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 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 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-).

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Legacy System number:: 488610
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.