7, FRIAR STREET
7, FRIAR STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389838
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 7, FRIAR STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 7, FRIAR STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389838
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Jun-2001
- List Entry Name:
- 7, FRIAR STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 7, 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:
- 7, 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 85139 54733
Details
WORCESTER
SO8554NW FRIAR STREET
620-1/17/281 (East side)
22/05/54 No.7
(Formerly Listed as:
FRIAR STREET
(East side)
No.7
Thompson's Trust
(Worcester
Archaeological Society's
Library))
GV II
House, now hair salon on both floors. c1660 with later
additions and alterations including restoration of 1950's.
Possibly for one Richard Smith. Timber-frame with rendered
brick infill under a plain clay tile roof. No visible stacks.
Plan: was simply two rooms on ground-floor, now one. Note
there is no external wall to the south, the building taking
its support from the Greyfriars (qv).
TIMBER-FRAME: large square panels, each floor two panels high,
jettied first-floor with heavily moulded bressumer beam.
Console brackets to oriel windows. Roof gablet is
weather-protection for projecting re-used beam to central
truss.
Symmetrical elevation, 2 storey, 2 first-floor windows with
large gables over. Mullion and transom windows of 4-lights,
leaded with rectangular quarries. Similar but shorter windows
to the ground-floor. Central door of oak planks with chamfered
cover strips.
INTERIOR: timber-frame exposed during 1950's restoration, when
C17 staircase was imported.
(Worcester Streets: Hughes P and Molyneux N: Friar Street:
Worcester: 1984-: 2-5).
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 488789
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hughes, P, Molyneux, N, Friar Street, (1984), 2-5
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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