54, BROAD STREET
54, BROAD STREET
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Overview
- 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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- 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
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
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-).
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 488610
- 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.
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