'Unicorn' with entrance to Crowngate Centre

'Unicorn' with entrance to Crowngate Centre, 19, Chapel Walk, Worcester, WR1 3LD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1063880
Date first listed:: 05-Apr-1971
List Entry Name:: 'Unicorn' with entrance to Crowngate Centre
Statutory Address:: 'Unicorn' with entrance to Crowngate Centre, 19, Chapel Walk, Worcester, WR1 3LD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1063880
Date first listed:: 05-Apr-1971
Date of most recent amendment:: 27-Jun-2001
List Entry Name:: 'Unicorn' with entrance to Crowngate Centre
Statutory Address 1:: 'Unicorn' with entrance to Crowngate Centre, 19, Chapel Walk, Worcester, WR1 3LD

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:: 'Unicorn' with entrance to Crowngate Centre, 19, Chapel Walk, Worcester, WR1 3LD

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:: SO 84876 54953

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 29 August 2023 to amend the name and address and reformat the text to current standards.

SO8454NE 620-1/16/128

WORCESTER CHAPEL WALK No.19, 'Unicorn' with entrance to Crowngate Centre

(Formerly listed as No.55, 'Unicorn' with entrance to Crowngate Centre, BROAD STREET, previously listed as: BROAD STREET (South side) No.55 (Former Unicorn Hotel (Unicorn Chambers))

05/04/71

GV II Hotel, now shops and offices, also forming entrance to Crowngate Centre. c1830 with later additions and alterations including those c1980s. Stucco over brick with concealed roof. Four storeys, seven first floor windows. First, second and third floors have six/six cambered-arched sashes in near-flush frames. Cornice over first floor; second floor band; cornice over second floor; crowning frieze and low, coped parapet. Ground floor has horizontal rustication and central tristyle Doric portico with entablature (occupying former carriage entrance) giving access to shopping centre. To either side a replacement plate-glass shop front.

INTERIOR: in rear part to right of passageway an open newel staircase to full height with rod-on-vase balusters, shaped handrail and carved tread ends. First floor room at front retains two transverse beams with roll-moulding and moulded cornices. Other rooms to first floor retain fluted cornices.

HISTORICAL NOTE: known as The Unicorn Hotel, this was one of the principal coaching inns of Georgian Worcester, others include the former Crown Hotel (Nos 10 and 10A with Crown Passage including Crown Inn) and The Star Hotel, Foregate Street (qqv). The Unicorn Hotel was built over the northern line of Worcester's Saxon town defences, evealed in excavations of 1989. Hughes states that,'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'.

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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Legacy System number:: 488611
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.