5-13, BRIDGE STREET AND 2, QUAY STREET

5-13, BRIDGE STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1063921
Date first listed:: 05-Apr-1971
List Entry Name:: 5-13, BRIDGE STREET AND 2, QUAY STREET
Statutory Address:: 5-13, BRIDGE STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1063921
Date first listed:: 05-Apr-1971
List Entry Name:: 5-13, BRIDGE STREET AND 2, QUAY STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 5-13, BRIDGE STREET
Statutory Address 2:: WARMSTREY COURT, 1-3, QUAY 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:: 5-13, BRIDGE STREET
Statutory Address:: WARMSTREY COURT, 1-3, QUAY 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:: SO8472354859

Details

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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Legacy System number:: 488552
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.