17 and 18, Chapel Walk

17 and 18, Chapel Walk, Worcester, WR1 3LD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1063881
Date first listed:: 05-Apr-1971
List Entry Name:: 17 and 18, Chapel Walk
Statutory Address:: 17 and 18, Chapel Walk, Worcester, WR1 3LD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1063881
Date first listed:: 05-Apr-1971
Date of most recent amendment:: 27-Jun-2001
List Entry Name:: 17 and 18, Chapel Walk
Statutory Address 1:: 17 and 18, Chapel Walk, Worcester, WR1 3LD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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:: 17 and 18, Chapel Walk, Worcester, WR1 3LD

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County:: Worcestershire
District:: Worcester (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SO8488554956

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 620-1/16/129

WORCESTER CHAPEL WALK No.17 and 18 (Formerly listed as No 56, BROAD STREET, previously listed as BROAD STREET (south side) No.56 Arcadia Public House)

05/04/71

GV II Probably house and shop, now shop with offices over. c1750 possibly with earlier origins and with later additions and alterations including ground floor shop front c1980s. Pinkish-red brick in Flemish bond with stone keystones, sills and cornice; plain tile roof and left end brick stack with pot. Three storeys with attic, two first floor windows. First and second floors have six/six sashes in near-flush frames with flat arches of gauged brick and raised keystones with incised motif and sills. Crowning frieze and moulded cornice. Gabled attic roof dormer has three/three sash. Shop front in Victorian style has plate-glass windows with cylindrical mullions and apron; entrance at left a renewed six-panel door with overlight.

INTERIOR: ground floor renewed, 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.

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Legacy System number:: 488612
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.