Tudor Cottage
TUDOR COTTAGE, 21, FISH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389793
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Tudor Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- TUDOR COTTAGE, 21, FISH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389793
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Jun-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Tudor Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- TUDOR COTTAGE, 21, FISH STREET
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:
- TUDOR COTTAGE, 21, FISH 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:
- SO 84966 54685
Details
WORCESTER
SO8454NE FISH STREET
620-1/16/235 (South side)
22/05/54 No.21
Tudor Cottage
(Formerly Listed as:
FISH STREET
No.21)
GV II
House. c1620 for Humphrey Tyrer with later additions and
alterations including those c1890s when the house was
refenestrated and with C20 range at rear left. Timber frame
with brick nogging at ground floor to front facade and to left
return, otherwise plaster infill and plain tile roof; 2 right
stacks, one renewed, that to rear in C18 brick. Timber
framing: close studding to front and box frames to left
return.
PLAN: gable end to street; One room wide, 2 rooms deep with
corner fireplaces and staircase between. 2 storeys, with attic
to gable, 2 first-floor windows. Sill beam, main end posts to
left and right with scrolled brackets supporting bressumer to
jetty at first floor. Entrance to left a 6-long-panel studded
door and renewed overlight; to right an inserted 9-pane
casement window. First floor has 8-pane casement windows.
Jetty to attic has ovolo-moulded bressumer beam on scrolled
brackets; 6-pane casement window to attic. Ends of two purlins
project, one to each side.
INTERIOR: open newel staircase to full height has 2
rod-on-vase balusters per tread, those balusters to attic are
thicker turned rods and may be original; shaped handrail.
Exposed timber-framing to walls throughout. Attic has exposed,
massive chamfered purlins and wall plate. First floor has
three 2-raised-and-fielded-panel doors with metal latches,
that to closet has wooden lock; cross beam to front room and
ceiling with imple 'knuckle' moulding in plaster. Wooden
partition wall with splat balustrade at top to landing closet.
Rear first-floor bedroom has corner fireplace with simple
ovolo-moulded shelf and cupboards to either side with panelled
doors and butterfly- and S-hinges. Ground floor: corner
fireplaces with renewed surrounds, chimney stack to rear room
said to have steps within; exposed rough-hewn timber-framing.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Hughes notes that the staircase and divided
hearth stack were inserted before the 1666 Hearth tax.
Nos 3-9 (odd), and Nos 21 and 23, Fish Street (qqv) form a
group.
The timber-framed houses, Nos 9 and 21, frame the view of
Worcester Cathedral (qv) from Fish Street.
(Hughes, P.M.: Worcester: Buildings and the Building Trade,
1540-1650: Birmingham University PhD: 1990-: 167).
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 488744
- 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.
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