37, FOREGATE STREET

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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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Official list entry

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

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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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.