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EAGLE VAULTS PUBLIC HOUSE

EAGLE VAULTS PUBLIC HOUSE, 2, FRIAR STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1389835
Date first listed:: 21-May-1954
List Entry Name:: EAGLE VAULTS PUBLIC HOUSE
Statutory Address:: EAGLE VAULTS PUBLIC HOUSE, 2, FRIAR STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1389835
Date first listed:: 21-May-1954
List Entry Name:: EAGLE VAULTS PUBLIC HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: EAGLE VAULTS PUBLIC HOUSE, 2, FRIAR STREET

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:: EAGLE VAULTS PUBLIC HOUSE, 2, FRIAR STREET

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 85129 54750

Details

WORCESTER

SO8554NW FRIAR STREET 620-1/17/278 (West side) 22/05/54 No.2 Eagle Vaults Public House

GV II

House, now inn. Probably c1740s for Mr Charles Collins, possibly with earlier origins and with later additions and alterations including c1890-1900 ground-floor pub frontage. Reddish-brown brick in Flemish bond with red brick dressings, ground floor has glazed tile frontage; plain tile hipped roof and rear brick stacks with oversailing course; timber-framed roof dormers with stucco infill. Single depth plan. Ground-floor in Mannerist style. 2 storeys with attics, 7 first-floor windows. First-floor has renewed casement windows under cambered arch of alternately tall and short bricks. Crowning 3-course eaves band and modillion cornice. Attic roof dormers have hipped roofs and casement windows. Ground-floor: tall plinth surmounted by banded pilasters to either side of entrances and windows; voussoirs around windows, continuous frieze with raised lettering: 'WINES MITCHELLS & BUTLERS SPIRITS GOLD MEDAL ALES AND STOUTS', cornice surmounted by swan neck pediments with swags and ball finials over all entrances except that to angle. Entrances to centre, to left and to right angle: panelled and part-glazed doors with etched glass, timber doorcases have billet friezes and cambered overlights in hollow-moulded surrounds; entrance at left a 6-panel double door; entrance at right to canted angle under scrolled hood. 4 round-arched windows have lower rectangular panel of etched glass, dentil moulding to architrave and 3 stepped, rounded upper lights. Right return has similar end entrance and further, similar window; frieze continues to right return has raised lettering, 'EAGLE VAULTS SPIRITS', crowning cornice and similar swan neck pediment to entrance. INTERIOR: retains original pub features including glazed tiles with neo-classical motif to central entrance. Formerly 2 rooms with central hall, that ground floor is now one continuous room. Bar to right part has neo-classical details, cornices. HISTORICAL NOTE: although stylistically the house appears to date from the late C17, Hughes and Molyneux suggest that documentary evidence indicates a date in the 1740s when Charles Collins rebuilt on the site of an earlier property. In 1764, John Young bought the property, converting it into a pub known as Young's Mug House in 1779. From 1814-17 it was known as the Volunteer, and then the Plummer's Arms. It has been known as the FRIAR STREET Vaults since 1859, with a period of closure c1982. There were four entrances on the Friar Street frontage before the existing tiled facade was added. Friar Street originated as a rear access lane or buildings in High Street until the foundation of the Franciscan Friary in 1235. The first Friary buildings occupied the stretch between Nos 11-25. The south end of the street was developed first, with plots dating from the mid C14, plots at the north end date from the early C15. Many of the existing houses date from the Reformation, the Friary having been suppressed in 1539 and its property sold by the Crown to the Corporation of Worcester which demolished much for building materials. Building continued from c1540 onwards, modifications were made to houses during the C17, whilst the C18 saw the replacement of several older buildings. The street was inhabited mainly by tradesmen: weavers, clothiers, brewers and innkeepers. A particularly fine example of a late C19 pub facade. Occupies an important corner site. (Hughes P and Molyneux N: Friar Street: 1984-: 36).

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Legacy System number:: 488786
Legacy System:: LBS

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Hughes, P, Molyneux, N, Friar Street, (1984), 36

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