Star Hotel
STAR HOTEL, 61 AND 62, FOREGATE STREET, WORCESTER
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389826
- Date first listed:
- 05-Apr-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Star Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- STAR HOTEL, 61 AND 62, FOREGATE STREET, WORCESTER
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389826
- Date first listed:
- 05-Apr-1971
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 05-Jul-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Star Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- STAR HOTEL, 61 AND 62, FOREGATE STREET, WORCESTER
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:
- STAR HOTEL, 61 AND 62, FOREGATE STREET, WORCESTER
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 84910 55176
Details
SO8455SE
620-1/12/268
WORCESTER
FOREGATE STREET (East side)
Nos. 61 and 62, Star Hotel
(Formerly listed under FRIAR STREET)
(Formerly listed as FRIAR STREET (West side) No. 61 The Star Hotel, previously listed as FRIAR STREET (West side) Nos. 62, 64 and 66 Victoria House)
05/04/71
GV
II
Hotel. c1820, extended to south in same style by 1886 (shallow break forward at this point). Later additions and alterations to rear. Red brick in Flemish bond, painted stucco ground-floor and dressings, cast-iron balcony and embellishments. Concealed slate roof.
Four storeys. Twelve (3:9) first-floor windows. Stucco detailing includes horizontal rustication to ground-floor; wide carriage opening to left break forward has rusticated Doric three-quarter engaged Doric pillars; tooled keystones with cornices to first-, second-, and third-floor openings; crowning frieze and cornice, low-coped parapet. Windows are 1/1 sashes throughout, those to the left form a triple unit window, the outer sashes being narrower, all in plain reveals with gauged flat arches and sills. Off-centre right entrance, Two steps to double four-panel doors, the upper panels round arched; cambered arch overlight; glazed C20 canopy. Double planked-doors to carriage opening. To rear wing are tall first-floor windows and corbelled-out first-floor stacks, to former assembly room.
INTERIOR: Stair hall off-centre left, wide staircase has ornate cast-iron balusters; some original plasterwork; modillion cornice to hall; some tooled architraves to doors with lions' masks to corners.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Continuous first-floor balcony has scrolled ornamental balustrade and incorporates five lamp brackets to entrances and ends; second-floor windows have individual window boxes with scroll motif.
Forms a group with numbers 2-6 and 63-66 (qqv).
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Worcestershire:
Harmondsworth: 1968-1985: 332).
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 488777
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, (1968)
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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