59 AND 60, BROAD STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1063885
Date first listed:: 22-May-1954
List Entry Name:: 59 AND 60, BROAD STREET
Statutory Address:: 59 AND 60, BROAD STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1063885
Date first listed:: 22-May-1954
Date of most recent amendment:: 27-Jun-2001
List Entry Name:: 59 AND 60, BROAD STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 59 AND 60, 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:: 59 AND 60, 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:: SO8490754961

Details

WORCESTER

SO8454NE BROAD STREET 620-1/16/132 (South side) 22/5/54 Nos.59 AND 60 (Formerly Listed as: BROAD STREET (South side) No.59) (Formerly Listed as: BROAD STREET (South side) No.60)

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2 houses, probably originally with shops, now bank. One build, probably c1750, possibly with earlier origins and with later additions and alterations including ground floor shop front c1920. MATERIALS: Pinkish red brick with flat arches of red gauged brick, stone quoins, keystones and ground floor bank frontage, concealed roof and end brick stacks. EXTERIOR: 4 storeys, 6 first floor windows. Quoins from first floor to full height. 6/6 sashes to first, second and third floors in near flush frames, with moulded sills and flat arches with raised, engraved keystones with cornices. Renewed eaves band and low, coped parapet. Ground floor has unified shop frontage with end entrances, 8-raised-and-fielded-panel double doors with fluted frieze in pilastered reveals and with fanlights with decorative glazing bars and panels to spandrels over, between these are 4 plate glass windows on panelled aprons and with pilasters between, stepped frieze, continuous cornice which breaks forwards over windows. INTERIOR: ground floor altered, otherwise not inspected but said to retain original plasterwork and joinery including staircase with stick balusters at first floor and dado rail. 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, 12, 18, 19, 29, 32-36 (consecutive), 40, 41, 43-49 (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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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 488615
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.