39 (Vinegar House) and attached wall to south
39 (Vinegar House) and attached wall to south, Foregate Street, Worcester, WR1 1DJ
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389815
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 39 (Vinegar House) and attached wall to south
- Statutory Address:
- 39 (Vinegar House) and attached wall to south, Foregate Street, Worcester, WR1 1DJ
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389815
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 05-Jul-2001
- List Entry Name:
- 39 (Vinegar House) and attached wall to south
- Statutory Address 1:
- 39 (Vinegar House) and attached wall to south, Foregate Street, Worcester, WR1 1DJ
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:
- 39 (Vinegar House) and attached wall to south, Foregate Street, Worcester, WR1 1DJ
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:
- SO8486555359
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 21 July 2022 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards
SO8455SE
620-1/12/257
WORCESTER
FOREGATE STREET (West side)
No.39 (Vinegar House) and attached wall to south
(Formerly listed as FRIAR STREET (West side) No.39 and attached wall to south, previously Listed as: FRIAR STREET (West side) No.39)
22/05/54
GV
II
House with attached wall, unoccupied and disused at time of List Review. c1770 with later additions and alterations. Reddish-orange brick in Flemish bond with stone sills, cornice and copings, stucco to plinth and to left return, cast-iron Carron Company balustrade, plain tile hipped roof and end reddish-orange brick stacks with oversailing courses and pots, stack to left is external.
Three storeys, five first-floor windows. Chamfered plinth. First floor has tall 6/9 sashes; second floor has 3/3 sashes; ground floor has 6/6 sashes; all in near-flush frames and with sills and flat arches of gauged brick. To first floor a continuous balcony with heart and anthaemeon motif balustrade. Crowning frieze and ovolo-moulded cornice, coped parapet. Central entrance: six-raised-and-fielded-panel door in panelled reveals with fanlight with gothic glazing bars and in pilastered doorcase with console brackets to open pediment. Left return has 6/6 sashes where original.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: wall at left of single storey and approximately 3.5 metres long with ramped and coped parapet and inserted gateway.
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.'
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:
- 488766
- 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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