45, Foregate Street

45, FOREGATE STREET, WORCESTER, WR1 1EE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1389820
Date first listed:
22-May-1954
List Entry Name:
45, Foregate Street
Statutory Address:
45, FOREGATE STREET, WORCESTER, WR1 1EE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1389820
Date first listed:
22-May-1954
Date of most recent amendment:
05-Jul-2001
List Entry Name:
45, Foregate Street
Statutory Address 1:
45, FOREGATE STREET, WORCESTER, WR1 1EE

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
45, 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:
SO8488755294

Details

SO8455SE
620-1/12/262

WORCESTER
FOREGATE STREET (West side)
No.45

(Formerly listed under FRIAR STREET)

22/05/54

GV
II
House, now shop with offices. Mid C18 with later additions and alterations including c1970s ground-floor shop front. Three storeys with attic, three first-floor windows. Reddish-brown brick in Flemish bond with flat arches of dark red gauged brick, ashlar keystones and renewed timber cornice and plain tile roof. First and second floors have 6/6 flush sashes with roll-and-triple-step moulded sills; flat arches and keystones, those outer ones to first floor have incised moulding and outer keystones to second floor are fluted, the central keystones have foliate embellishments, all have cornices. Wide modillion eaves cornice. Two gabled roof dormers with casement windows. Ground-floor has plate-glass shop front and renewed, glazed entrance
.
INTERIOR: 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, 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.

(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).

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Legacy System number:
488771
Legacy System:
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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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