5-13, Bridge Street and 2, Quay Street

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WORCESTER

SO8454NE BRIDGE STREET
620-1/16/68 (South East side)
05/04/71 Nos.5-13 (Consecutive)

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Includes: 1, 2 & 3 Warmstrey Court QUAY STREET.
Includes: No.2 QUAY STREET.
Terrace of 12 houses, now flats, house and shop. Numbered right
to left, described left to right. Probably c1771-99 in 2 stages
of build with later alterations including probably mid-late C19
shop front to left and conversion to flats with rebuilding to
ground floor 1981-3. Possibly by John Gwynn of Shrewsbury,
architect of Worcester Bridge (qv). Brownish-red brick in Flemish
bond with ashlar plinth, first-floor band and entablature, mainly
timber doorcases; 2 houses at right have stucco to ground floor
and red gauged brick arches; slate roofs, hipped to left, tall
brick party-wall stacks with oversailing courses and pots.
PLAN: Terrace occupies one entire side of sloping street and is
canted to left end to follow angle of street; mainly 3 windows
each with side stairhalls. 3 storeys + attics, with
3-lower-storey range at left, 3:24:7 first-floor windows. Stucco
detailing: horizontal rustication to ground floor at right.
Continuous chamfered plinth; first-floor sill band; main range
has frieze and cornice, range at right has low, coped parapet;
all stepped to follow slope of street. 6/6 sashes in plain
reveals and with flat arches of gauged brick throughout, except
those to ground floor at right have flat chanelled arches and
keystones; 2 first-floor windows to No.13 on splayed angle are
painted; first-floor windows to No.10 have cast-iron scrolled
balconettes. To left angle a shop front with painted brick
plinth, plate-glass windows canted in to part-glazed entrance
with lower panel, frieze and fascia with dentil cornice.
Otherwise entrances to main range have steps to 6-panel doors
with fanlights in panelled reveals and with 3/4 engaged Doric
doorcases with open pediments (mainly renewed); 2 entrances at
right are stuccoed and have 6-panel doors (upper panels raised
and fielded, lower panels flush), in architraves with fluted
Doric pilasters, frieze and pediment. Flat-roofed attic dormers
have 3/6 sashes where original. Return to Quay Street: 3-lower
storeys, 2 first-floor windows. Ground floor has 3/6 sash and 8/8
sash, both in near-flush frames and with cambered arches.
Otherwise replacement windows all under cambered arches. Entrance
a 6-raised-and-fielded-panel door in timber doorcase with frieze
and cornice. Rear: mainly 6/6 sashes with elliptical arches.
Attics have 3/3 and 6/6 sashes.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the development of this and the terrace opposite
(Nos 14-43 consecutive (qv)) seems to coincide with the erection
of Worcester Bridge (qv), from which Bridge Street commences,
built 1771-80 by architect John Gwynn. During the C19 these
houses were converted to shops with flats over, the shop fronts
were from a variety of dates; the terrace was brought back to
domestic occupation as flats in the 1980s. No 2 was totally
demolished in 1981-3, Nos 3 and 4 (now Nos 1-3 Warmstrey Court)
retaining their C18 facades. Forms a good group with terrace to
west side of Bridge Street, John Gwynn House (qv), both forming a
visual approach to listed buildings in Broad Street (qv) to north
and grouping with Worcester Bridge (qv) to south.

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