Victoria House

Victoria House, 1, Shaw Street, Worcester, WR1 3QQ

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1389827
Date first listed:: 22-May-1954
List Entry Name:: Victoria House
Statutory Address:: Victoria House, 1, Shaw Street, Worcester, WR1 3QQ

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1389827
Date first listed:: 22-May-1954
Date of most recent amendment:: 05-Jul-2001
List Entry Name:: Victoria House
Statutory Address 1:: Victoria House, 1, Shaw Street, Worcester, WR1 3QQ
Statutory Address 2:: Victoria House, 63-66, Foregate Street, Worcester, WR1 1DX

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: Victoria House, 1, Shaw Street, Worcester, WR1 3QQ
Statutory Address:: Victoria House, 63-66, Foregate Street, Worcester, WR1 1DX

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:: SO8492955150

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 17 April 2023 to update the name and address and reformat the text to current standards

SO8455SE 620-1/12/269 WORCESTER FOREGATE STREET (West side) Nos.63-66 (Consecutive) Victoria House and 1 Shaw Street

(Formerly listed as Nos.63-66 (Consecutive) Victoria House, FOREGATE STREET (West side) previously listed under FRIAR STREET, formerly listed as FRIAR STREET (West side) Nos.62, 64 AND 66 Victoria House)

22/05/54

GV II Terrace of four houses, now shops and offices. Late C18 with later additions and alterations including 1960s ground floor shop front. Red/brown brick in irregular Flemish bond, ashlar dressings, concealed slate roof, central, off-centre right and right end-stacks, all with oversailing details and pots. Double depth, L-plan.

PRINCIPAL ELEVATION: four storeys, ten (2:2:3:3) first floor windows. From first floor to full-height are raised-rusticated quoins surmounted by continuous frieze, cyma-recta cornice and low parapet. First and second floor have 6/6 sashes, third floor has 3/3, all in flush frames, all have flat gauged brick arches with raised keystones, those to first and second floor have cornices, second and third floor windows have sills. Ground floor has plate glass windows and doors.

Left-return elevation (Shaw Street): Stack at west end. Four window range, ground floor left is in chamfered rustication, quoins to left corner. First floor windows are 6/6, second floor windows are 8/8, third floor are 4/4, all in plain reveals with sills. Part-glazed door with fanlight in Doric-style pilaster door case with incised Greek-key mouldings. C20 casement window to left has flat voussoired arch, further C20 flush doors to far left with similar arch raised above.

INTERIOR: retains original joinery including panelled shutters.

HISTORICAL NOTE: 63-66 is believed to have been the Hop Pole coaching inn, (the Hop Pole was constructed by 1749 (Worcester Cathedral Library, ref A31 folio 114). Victoria House was established in 1842 as a department store specialising in drapery items, it traded on both ground- and first-floors and was still operating in 1903. Pevsner refers to Foregate Street as, "the street richest in Georgian buildings." Occupies an important corner site.

(Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Worcestershire: Harmondsworth: 1968-1985: 332; Worcester Daily Times: Worcester at Work: Worcester: 1903: 35).

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 488778
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, (1968), 332

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.