1 and 1A, Foregate Street
1 AND 1A, FOREGATE STREET, WORCESTER, WR1 1DB
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389797
- Date first listed:
- 19-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- 1 and 1A, Foregate Street
- Statutory Address:
- 1 AND 1A, FOREGATE STREET, WORCESTER, WR1 1DB
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389797
- Date first listed:
- 19-Aug-1999
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 05-Jul-2001
- List Entry Name:
- 1 and 1A, Foregate Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1 AND 1A, FOREGATE STREET, WORCESTER, WR1 1DB
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:
- 1 AND 1A, FOREGATE STREET, WORCESTER, WR1 1DB
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 84958 55150
Details
SO8455SE
620-1/12/239
WORCESTER
FOREGATE STREET (East side)
Nos.1 AND 1A
(Formerly listed under FRIAR STREET)
19/08/99
GV
II
Shop with offices over. c1880s with later alterations including c1980s ground-floor shop front. Reddish-brown brick in Flemish bond and header bond to angle with stone dressings and concealed roof; left end brick stack. Curved on plan to right angle. Aesthetic Movement detailing.
Four storeys, one first-floor window, with two first-floor windows to right return. First and second floors have 1/1 sashes, third floor has 2/2 sashes; those to first-floor are round-headed, otherwise with cambered heads; all in plain reveals with roll moulding. First-floor windows have moulded sills on feet; second- and third-floor moulded bands break forward to form sills under windows with feet. First-floor windows have brick and stone arches and roll-moulded hood on carved imposts and with shaped keystones with foliate decoration; second and third floors similar, keystones to second-floor have sunflowers, those to third-floor are plain. Console brackets, frieze and cornice with coped parapet. To angle a clock at first-floor and barometer at second-floor, both in circular brick surrounds.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: during the C18 Foregate Street was known as 'the mall' and Tymbs' Worcester Guide of 1802 notes, 'the Foregate Street itself, by being well paved and sufficiently broad to admit a full circulation of air seems to be generally resorted to as a fashionable promenade.' Nos 1-6 (consecutive), Nos 57-66 (consecutive) Foregate Street, Berkeley's Hospital, Hop Market and Nos 14, 15 and 19 The Foregate, and Nos 3, 5 and 7 Sansome Street (qqv) form a good group.
A good example of a late C19 commercial building, which occupies a visually significant corner site. No.1 occupies an important corner site contributing to the visual framework to one of the major entrances to Worcester city centre via The Foregate and The Cross.
(Worcestershire Historical Society Occasional: Papers: Whitehead D: Urban Renewal and Suburban Growth: The Shaping of Georgian Worcester: 1989: 12; Tymbs: Worcester Guide: Worcester: 1802: 60).
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 488748
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Tymbs, , Worcester Guide, (1802), 20
Whitehead, D, Worcestershire Historical Society Occasional Papers in Urban Renewal And Suburban Growth: The Shaping Of Georgian Worcester, (1989), 12
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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