6-9, CORNMARKET
6-9, CORNMARKET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389752
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 6-9, CORNMARKET
- Statutory Address:
- 6-9, CORNMARKET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389752
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Jun-2001
- List Entry Name:
- 6-9, CORNMARKET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 6-9, CORNMARKET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 6-9, CORNMARKET
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:
- SO 85195 54962
Details
WORCESTER
SO8554NW CORNMARKET
620-1/17/201 (East side)
22/05/54 Nos.6-9 (Consecutive)
(Formerly Listed as:
CORNMARKET
Nos.6 AND 7)
(Formerly Listed as:
CORNMARKET
Nos.8 AND 9)
GV II
4 houses, now shop. Numbered right to left, described left to
right. C16 origins with later additions and alterations
including frontage c1735 to right part and early C20
ground-floor shop front and probable reproduction of front
facade to left part. Pinkish-red brick to left part with
pinkish-brown brick to right part, all in Flemish bond; stucco
keystones, aprons and pilasters and flat arches of red gauged
brick; plain tile roof with tall brick stack to right with
oversailing course and pots. Range to left of 3 storeys, 7
first-floor windows and range to right of 2 storeys, 4
first-floor windows. Left range: end pilasters through first
and second floors with horizontal rustication; first and
second floors have 6/6 flush sashes with flat arches and
central keystones with cornices and moulded sills (roll and 2
steps), to second-floor windows are fluted, segmental aprons.
Crowning moulded cornice and coped parapet. Right range: first
floor has 6/6 flush sashes with cambered-arched heads and
under cambered arches. Ground floor has continuous shop
frontage: end pilasters and between windows have festoons;
frieze and cornice; plate-glass windows, frieze with glazing
bars; canted in towards off-centre right entrance with
replacement glass door. Further entrance to passage at right a
plank door.
INTERIOR: to left part a curved narrow-openwell staircase has
stick balusters and wreathed handrail; remains of a timber
post and wall plate; chamfered beams with ogee stop. Right
part retains timber-framing: 4 posts and square panels of
timber-framing with wattle and daub to transverse passage at
ground floor. First floor has jowled post and a second exposed
post. Exposed beams. Roof timbers to right part said to
remain.
HISTORICAL NOTE: this was a house until the early C20; it has
been a furniture store since then. The E side of this
property adjoins one length of the C14 city wall, City Walls
Road (qv item 714).
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner: N: Worcestershire:
Harmondsworth: 1968-1985: 329).
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 488703
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, (1968), 329
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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