7, COPENHAGEN STREET

Details

WORCESTER

SO8454NE COPENHAGEN STREET
620-1/16/197 (South side)
05/04/71 No.7

GV II

House, now shop with office over. 1558 for Christopher
Dighton; partly rebuilt c1717 by Charles Green; later
additions and alterations include refenestration c1792 for
Daniel Brookholding urwen; restorations c1980s by Wood,
Kendrick and Williams. Timber frame with pinkish-red brick
facade in Flemish bond, concealed roof. 2 storeys with attic
to gable, 3 first-floor windows. First floor has three 6/6
sashes in near-flush frames with flat arches of gauged brick.
3-course second-floor band. 3-light casement to upper stage.
Curvilinear gable end.
INTERIOR: some exposed timber framing. Chamfered axial and
transverse beams. To kitchen a deep brick fireplace and bread
oven with arched bressumer beam. Closed string dogleg
staircase has turned balusters from first to second floors, to
upper landing a short stretch of splat balusters and newel
post with finial. Roof noted as having exposed chamfered
purlins and rafters with wind braces, queen struts.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Christopher Dighton built this as an
investment property, leasing the site from the Dean and
Chapter of Worcester Cathedral; he rented it to Susan
Billingham, then to John Hill. The original plan probably
consisted of a front room with side passage, with a kitchen to
rear and hall and stairs between front and rear. In 1640 the
house was leased by the Dean and Chapter to Edmond Thomason
(d.1697), his widow turned it into an alehouse, The Phoenix.
Margaret Thomason d.1712, it was then leased to Charles Green,
one of the Worcester School of Builders, who re-let it to John
Edwards who continued to run it as an alehouse under the same
name. On Edwards's death (1717), Charles Green modernised the
house, raising ceilings on the first and second floors and
rebuilding the front facade in brick and inserting a
staircase. By the late 1720s Green's tenant was William
Harnage, and on Green's death the property was leased to
Richard Blount and then to Rebecca and Joseph Southall
(Worcester glovers). In 1792 Daniel Brookholding Curwen,
solicitor, rented this as a home and office from the
Southalls, he refurbished and added 3 sash windows to the
first floor. The lease was sold to Samuel Haden c1797. In 1820
John Hill, shoemaker, lived and worked here. There were then 3
generations of Thomas Jacksons, last
makers, to 1864. From the early C20 to c1940 it was owned by
Abraham Harding, hairdresser. Cooken Street was renamed
Copenhagen Street following Nelson's visit to the city in
1802. The building was winner of the Worcester City Award
Scheme, 1986.
Nos 7 to 11 (odd) (qqv) form a group.
(Hughes P: The history of No.7 Copenhagen Street, 1558-present
day: 1986-).

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Sources

Books and journals
Hughes, P, The History of No. 7 Copenhagen Street 1558- present day, (1986)

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