5, FRIAR STREET
5, FRIAR STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389837
- Date first listed:
- 05-Apr-1971
- List Entry Name:
- 5, FRIAR STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 5, FRIAR STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389837
- Date first listed:
- 05-Apr-1971
- List Entry Name:
- 5, FRIAR STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 5, FRIAR STREET
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:
- 5, 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 85147 54739
Details
WORCESTER
SO8554NW FRIAR STREET
620-1/17/280 (East side)
05/04/71 No.5
GV II
House, now café on ground- and first-floor, residential on
second-floor. Believed to have origins in the C16 with later
additions and alterations including re-fronting/re-building in
the C18. Brick, painted to ground-floor, under hipped plain
clay tile roof. No visible stacks. Painted stone sills. Timber
shop-front.
Original plan, double-fronted, double-depth with staircase
between front and rear rooms; ground-floor now open plan.
Symmetrical elevation. Three storeys. Two first-floor windows,
8/8 sashes in near-flush frames under flat gauged-brick
arches, sills. 4/4 sashes to second-floor. Dentilled eaves.
Central part-glazed recessed door to largely 1920's shopfront
which has pilasters, console brackets and integral blind over
fascia panel. Separate access to upper floors via entrance in
left return. HISTORICAL NOTE: prior to insertion of the
shop-front in the 1920's, the premises were a baker's shop
with a pedimented doorway flanked by sash windows.
(Worcester Streets: Hughes P and Molyneux N: Friar Street:
Worcester: 1984-: 1-3).
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 488788
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hughes, P, Molyneux, N, Friar Street, (1984), 1-3
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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