40, Foregate Street
40, FOREGATE STREET, WORCESTER, WR1 1EE
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389816
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 40, Foregate Street
- Statutory Address:
- 40, FOREGATE STREET, WORCESTER, WR1 1EE
Location
Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.
Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.
What is the National Heritage List for England?
The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.
The list includes:
 |
Buildings |
 |
Scheduled monuments |
 |
Parks and gardens |
 |
Battlefields |
 |
Shipwrecks |
Local Heritage Hub
Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.
Discover moreOfficial list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389816
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 05-Jul-2001
- List Entry Name:
- 40, Foregate Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- 40, FOREGATE STREET, WORCESTER, WR1 1EE
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:
- 40, FOREGATE STREET, WORCESTER, WR1 1EE
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 84870 55344
Details
SO8455SE
620-1/12/258
WORCESTER
FOREGATE STREET (West side)
No.40
(Formerly listed under FRIAR STREET)
22/05/54
GV II
House, now shop and flat. Late C18 with range to rear of c1700 and later additions and alterations including those to ground floor of C19 and mid-C20. Pinkish-brown brick in Flemish bond with flat arches to windows of red gauged brick; stone sills, cornice and copings; stucco over brick to ground floor; concealed roof and brick ridge stack with pots.
Three storeys, five first-floor windows and with extensive range to rear. First and second floors have 1/1 horned sashes, taller to first floor, all in plain reveals and with sills and flat arches of gauged brick. Crowning frieze, ovolo cornice and coped parapet. Ground floor: entrance at right: 4-panel door, the lower two panels flush beaded, with fanlight, in plain reveals and doorcase with half-engaged Doric columns with entablature and open pediment with armorial cartouche. Otherwise ground floor has plate-glass shop front with outer Doric pilasters and continuous entablature.
INTERIOR: ground floor altered, otherwise 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.'
The Shire Hall, Statue of Queen Victoria, the City Museum and Library, and Nos 15, 19, 22, 23, 24, 28, Nos 33-46 (consecutive) and No.49 Foregate Street (qqv) form a good group.
(Worcestershire Historical Society Occasional Papers: Whitehead D: Urban Renewal and Suburban Growth: The Shaping of Georgian Worcester: 1989: 12; NMR: Photographs).
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 488767
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
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.
Map
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 19-Jun-2026 at 18:32:55.
Download a full scale map (PDF)End of official list entry
All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.