42, Foregate Street
42, FOREGATE STREET, WORCESTER, WR1 1EE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389818
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 42, Foregate Street
- Statutory Address:
- 42, FOREGATE STREET, WORCESTER, WR1 1EE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389818
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 05-Jul-2001
- List Entry Name:
- 42, Foregate Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- 42, 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:
- 42, 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 84875 55326
Details
SO8455SE
620-1/12/260
WORCESTER
FORGATE STREET (West side)
No.42
(Formerly listed under FRIAR STREET)
22/05/54
GV II
House, now offices. mid C18 with later additions and alterations. Stucco and pinkish-red brick in Flemish bond with ashlar cornice and copings, plain tile roof, brick end stack with pot.
Four storeys, five first-floor windows. Stucco to ground and first floors, detailing includes horizontal rustication to round floor and tooled architraves. Moulded plinth. Off-centre left entrance a six-panel door in panelled reveals, frieze and fanlight with decorative petal glazing bars, panelled round architrave and tooled impost band, stepped keystone; doorcase has three-quarter engaged Doric columns and open pediment with Apollo mask and sunburst motif. To left a plate glass window with margin lights in plain reveals and with shaped sill. Inserted wide window to right in tooled architrave. First-floor band. First-floor has 6/6 horned sashes in plain reveals and with tooled keystones. Second-floor has 6/6 sashes, some horned, in plain reveals and with sills, flat arches of gauged brick. Third-floor has 3/3 horned sashes in plain reveals and with sills, flat arches. Frieze, cornice and blocking course. Coped eaves.
INTERIOR: retains original joinery and plasterwork, tooled architraves to doors. Openwell staircase behind right room has wreathed handrail and turned balusters.
HISTORICAL NOTE: during the C18 Foregate Street was known as 'the mall' and Tymbs' Worcester Guide 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.40, 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; Tymbs: Worcester Guide: Worcester: 1802: 60).
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 488769
- 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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