21 AND 23, FRIAR STREET
21 AND 23, FRIAR STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389842
- Date first listed:
- 05-Apr-1971
- List Entry Name:
- 21 AND 23, FRIAR STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 21 AND 23, FRIAR STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389842
- Date first listed:
- 05-Apr-1971
- List Entry Name:
- 21 AND 23, FRIAR STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 21 AND 23, 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:
- 21 AND 23, 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:
- SO8515154646
Details
WORCESTER
SO8554NW FRIAR STREET
620-1/17/286 (East side)
05/04/71 Nos.21 AND 23
GV II
Originally 2 houses and shops with row of cottages at rear,
now 2 shops. 1739, possibly with C16 origins at south part and
with later additions and alterations including mid C19
ground-floor shop fronts. Stucco over brick, with timber-frame
and brick nogging to passage; renewed plain tile roof and
brick right end stack, truncated; timber shop fronts. 2
storeys with attics, 4 first-floor windows (2:2). First floor
has 6/6 sashes in near-flush frames and with sills. Modillion
eaves and. 3 attic dormers, 2 to left have casement windows
and are gabled, otherwise flat-roofed and with 3/6 sash.
Ground floor has shop fronts with pilaster strips, frieze and,
to right, cornice; glazed windows, that to left has 2
mullions, that to right has cylindrical mullion, on apron;
entrances at right and left are part-glaze doors, that at
right is recessed. Between shops a passageway giving access to
former cottages at rear. Passageway has rectangular panels of
timber framing.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: surveys made by the City of Worcester (who
owned the site) indicate that No.21 and the row of cottages at
the rear were 'new built in 1739'.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner: N: Worcestershire:
Harmondsworth: 1968-1985: 328; Hughes P and Molyneux N: Friar
Street: 1984-: 10-11).
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 488793
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hughes, P, Molyneux, N, Friar Street, (1984), 10-11
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, (1968), 328
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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