5, Foregate Street
5, FOREGATE STREET, WORCESTER, WR1 1DB
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389801
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 5, Foregate Street
- Statutory Address:
- 5, FOREGATE STREET, WORCESTER, WR1 1DB
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389801
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 05-Jul-2001
- List Entry Name:
- 5, Foregate Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- 5, 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:
- 5, 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:
- SO8495855179
Details
SO8455SE
620-1/12/243
WORCESTER
FOREGATE STREET (East side)
No.5
(Formerly listed under FRIAR STREET)
22/05/54
GV
II
Terraced house, now offices. Late C18 with later additions and alterations including c1988 shopfront. Red brick with stone dressings, slate roof partially concealed behind parapets, curvilinear to gable ends. Stack to left gable and to right of centre ridge, both with oversailing details and pots. Lead rainwater hopper heads and downpipes.
PLAN: Double-depth with stairwell to rear right. Entrance hall originally at right but ground-floor now open-plan. Service range to rear right. Four storeys plus cellar. Four first-floor windows. Stone detailing includes modillion cornice, parapet copings, capped and fluted keystones to window heads, sills, further modillion cornice to shopfront (remnant of earlier ground-floor facade). 6/6 windows except to second-floor which are 3/3, all under flat gauged-brick arches and with sills.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 488752
- 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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