14, 16 AND 18, FRIAR STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1389840
Date first listed:: 22-May-1954
List Entry Name:: 14, 16 AND 18, FRIAR STREET
Statutory Address:: 14, 16 AND 18, FRIAR STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1389840
Date first listed:: 22-May-1954
List Entry Name:: 14, 16 AND 18, FRIAR STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 14, 16 AND 18, FRIAR STREET

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

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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:: 14, 16 AND 18, 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:: SO8512554717

Details

WORCESTER

SO8554NW FRIAR STREET 620-1/17/284 (West side) 22/05/54 Nos.14, 16 AND 18

GV II*

2 houses, now 3 shops with salon over south and centre bays. Numbered right to left, described left to right. North and centre bays (Nos 14 and 16) originally one dwelling, probably for John Watters, c1526-1544; southern bay (No.18) probably c1536-75; with later additions and alterations including outshut to rear at south probably late C17 and restorations of 1956 and shop fronts c1980s. Timber frame with brick and stucco infill, plain tile roof, old tiles to front with replacements to rear. PLAN: (Nos 14 and 16) originally a single, two-bay structure, the north bay slightly larger, with cross passage between in centre bay, then to south a single-bay dwelling, three bays deep, with cross passage at south. Now U-form with range at rear north (right) extended. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, with attics to outer gables, 3 bays. Jowled posts at ground-floor to cross passages and between dwellings. First-floor is jettied, the bressumer beam is now in 3 parts; close studding to first floor and to attic at south, to centre and north parts there is an additional mid rail and to south bay a bressumer over first-floor; ground-floor now occupied by shop fronts. Northernmost cross passage has rectangular framing. 3 replacement casement windows on brackets and with leaded lights. To south ( No.18) a continuous cornice on brackets over first-floor. South gable has similar 3-leaded-light casement window with continuous timber sill on brackets and 2-light casement window to north gable. Ground-floor: replacement shop fronts have multi-paned windows and glazed entrances. Cambered-arched opening to cross passage at south, further cross passage has straight-headed lintel and panel of carved decoration over with quatrefoils and mouchettes. Roof dormer on south return. INTERIOR: partition walls have large panels of square and rectangular framing and close studding; jowled posts to first floor; diagonal and arch braces; chamfered beams at rear, south with lamb's tongue stops. Clasped purlin roof to centre and north bays, similar roof to south bay. To north bay, first floor are 2 panels of painted decoration (probably mid-late C16) with scrolling foliate motif 'found and restored 1956'. HISTORICAL NOTE: the gable to north bay is a later addition as originally this dwelling had a simple roof parallel to the street, without dormers or gables. Nos 14 and 16 (originally one house) belonged to John Watters "paynter", 526-44; Gyles Taylor lived there in 1660 when the house is recorded as having 5 hearths; by 1678 Richard Roberts was the tenant (he became a Quaker); then Thomas Biddle; by 1741 when it was sold by the Wyldes, the property had been divided at the rear into 3 cottages and a frontage. Friar Street originated as a rear access lane for buildings on 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 as 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 of the older buildings. The street was inhabited mainly by tradesmen: weavers, clothiers, brewers and innkeepers; during the C17 Friar Street hosted a concentration of non-conformists, especially Quakers. (Hughes P and Molyneux N: Friar Street: 1984-: 32-33; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Worcestershire: Harmondsworth: 1968-1985: 328).

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Legacy System number:: 488791
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Hughes, P, Molyneux, N, Friar Street, (1984), 32-33
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, (1968), 328

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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.