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WORCESTER SO8454NE BROAD STREET
620-1/16/135 (South side)
16/07/99 No.69 GV II House and shop. c1860's, possibly with earlier origins.
MATERIALS: Red brick with stucco bands, concealed roof and tall
left side stack with modillion frieze, timber shop front.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with attic and cellar, 3 first floor windows.
First and second floors have plain horned sashes with continuous
sill band to second floor and with chamfered jambs and double
chamfered lintels incorporated into continuous stucco bands over
windows, third floor has central 2-light window with columnar
mullion, which interrupts eaves brackets and dentil cornice, and
with gable over with oculus in polyfoil surround. Pilasters,
console brackets, fascia and cornice to shop front are late C20,
otherwise C19, windows have carved decoration to spandrels,
window to right with slender mullion and windows to right and
left with glazing curved on plan into off-centre left entrance
glazed door with overlight, all with margin lights. INTERIOR:
retains some joinery and plasterwork contemporary to facade
including cornices and staircase on upper floors with turned
balusters. Staircase leading from ground floor was installed
c1960. A substantially complete surviving example of its type,
with good group value and occupying a significant site near the
junction of Broad Street, High Street and The Cross for which it
helps form the vista. 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). Nos 69 and 70 also form a
group with Nos 31 and 32 The Cross and Nos 61-65 (consecutive)
High Street (qqv).
Legacy
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Legacy System number:
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