The Horn and Trumpet Public House

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WORCESTER

SO8455SE ANGEL STREET
620-1/12/21 (North side)
08/3/74 No.12
The Horn and Trumpet
Public House

GV II

House, now public house. Origins of 1646-7 with mid C19
encasing and stables and later additions and alterations
including those of mid-C20 and restorations of 1992. House
built for Robert Sterrop. Painted brick to first floor,
otherwise stucco over brick with renewed plain tile roof and
pinkish-brown brick off-centre left and right end stacks with
oversailing courses and pots, partly renewed. Probably
originally a 2-cell lobby entry plan. 2 storeys with attics, 4
first-floor windows. Ground floor has pilasters with
horizontal rustication and fluted cornices to ends and to
either sides of entrances and windows. 2 entrances: off-centre
left and right, both 6-flush-beaded-panel doors. Windows to
ground floor: 8/1 sashes in shallow reveals under cambered
arches with central fluted keystones and fluted panel over; 2
continuous cornices with frieze between, to upper cornice are
pediments over doors. First floor: second opening blind,
otherwise 8/8 flush sashes under cambered arches. 3 attic roof
dormers with casement windows. Left return: entrance double
6-raised-and-fielded-panel doors between similar pilasters and
with chanelled flat arch and fluted keystone. End pilaster and
with similar cornices over, between 2 blind openings. 3-light
casements in gable.
INTERIOR: ground floor retains transverse beams with ovolo
moulding and step and ogee stops. Panelling said to be re-used
from demolished building in Leicestershire. First floor has
original panelling to front 2 rooms (originally one room), in
places with dentil frieze and with panelled doors with HL
hinges and plaster frieze with acanthus scroll and wheat sheaf
design mostly to front wall and in places to side walls.
Deeply-chemfered transverse beams; further axial beams.
Victorian cast-iron fireplace. To room at left are transverse
and axial beams with ogee stops and plaster reeded cornices at
either side. Some 6-raised-and-fielded-panel doors. Roof has
queen post trusses and panelled divides. 2 levels of purlins
and exposed rafters. Cupboard with plank door. Plaster and
wallpaper fragments indicate that this was once inhabited, the
roof space is floored with wide planks. Noted as having jowled
post supporting the collar of an interrupted tie beam roof.
HISTORICAL NOTE: c1350 the site was used as a burial ground
for victims of the Black Death. Before the Reformation it
formed part of the Blackfriar's orchard, then it came into the
city's ownership. In 1646 the land was leased from the city by
Robert Sterrop, Mayor who built a dwelling on the site, the
earliest datable brick house in the city (Hughes) which, in
1678, had 8 hearths; much of the fabric of this house is
intact and there was probably a rear wing. About 1800 the pub
was bought by the landlord of The Horn and Trumpet (then
opposite) who brought the name with him. Above right entrance
to main facade a huge 6-sided carriage lamp, remade in 1992
imitation of the lost original. Information supplied by
Marston's Brewery.
Occupies a prominent corner site at the junction of Angel
Street and Angel Place, forming a good group with the Corn
Exchange, Angel Street, No.23 Angel Place and Former
Congregational Church (now Tramps Discotheque), Angel Place
(qqv).
(Hughes P: Buildings and the Building Trade in Worcester
1540-1650: PhD thesis: 1990-: 164,188,429,456-460).

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