37, FOREGATE STREET
37, FOREGATE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389813
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 37, FOREGATE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 37, FOREGATE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389813
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 05-Jul-2001
- List Entry Name:
- 37, FOREGATE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 37, FOREGATE 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:
- 37, FOREGATE 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:
- SO8485855372
Details
WORCESTER
SO8455SE FRIAR STREET
620-1/12/255 (West side)
22/05/54 No.37
GV II
House, now shop and offices. c1730 with later additions and
alterations including c1930's shop front. Reddish-orange brick
in Flemish bond with stone sills, keystones and cornice;
stucco to ground floor; plain tile roof and end reddish-orange
brick stacks with oversailing courses and pots. 3 storeys plus
attic, 3 first-floor windows. First and second floors have 1/1
sashes in near-flush frames and with flat arches of gauged
brick and keystones, those to first floor are fluted and have
cornices, those to second floor have floral motif, moulded
sills. Wide pediment has acanthus modillions and central
oculus, otherwise crowning coped parapet. Raised and coped
gable ends. Ground floor: shaped plinth; entrance to left a
panelled door in Doric porch with triglyphs and metopes.
Window with bronze frame and acanthus motif at right. Frieze
and cornice over ground floor.
INTERIOR: panelled rooms to first- and ground-floors, with
marble fireplaces; panelled doors in moulded architraves; fine
dogleg staircase to rear with slender turned balusters with
nops, large cross-section ramped handrail, carved brackets to
open string, curtail step.
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.' An unusually
well-preserved example of an early Georgian town house
interior.
The Shire Hall, Statue of Queen Victoria, City Museum and
Library, and nos 15, 19, 22, 23, 24, 28, nos 33-46
(consecutive) and No.49, Foregate Street (qqv) form a
significant group.
(Tymbs: Worcester Guide: Worcester: 1802-: 60; Worcestershire
Historical Society Occasional Papers: Whitehead D: Urban
Renewal and Suburban Growth: The Shaping of Georgian
Worcester: 1989-: 12).
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 488764
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Tymbs, , Worcester Guide, (1802), 60
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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