The Cardinal's Hat Public House
THE CARDINAL'S HAT PUBLIC HOUSE, 31, FRIAR STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389849
- Date first listed:
- 05-Apr-1971
- List Entry Name:
- The Cardinal's Hat Public House
- Statutory Address:
- THE CARDINAL'S HAT PUBLIC HOUSE, 31, FRIAR STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389849
- Date first listed:
- 05-Apr-1971
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Jun-2001
- List Entry Name:
- The Cardinal's Hat Public House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE CARDINAL'S HAT PUBLIC HOUSE, 31, 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:
- THE CARDINAL'S HAT PUBLIC HOUSE, 31, 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 85156 54607
Details
WORCESTER
SO8554NW FRIAR STREET
620-1/17/293 (East side)
05/04/71 No.31
The Cardinal's Hat
Public House
(Formerly Listed as:
FRIAR STREET
(East side)
Nos.29 AND 31
The Chattery (No.29);
Davenport (No.31))
GV II
House, now public house. c1760, possibly with late C15 origins
and with later additions and alterations including ground
floor frontage at right c1900. Pinkish-orange brick in Flemish
bond, stone sills; with plain tile roof, half-hipped at right;
left end stacks with oversailing courses and pots. 3 storeys
with attic at rear, 3 first-floor windows. First and second
floors have fluted keystones and flat arches of gauged brick.
Replacement 12/12 sashes in near-flush frames, all with sills.
Dentil eaves cornice. Tudorbethan-style pub front; wide
off-centre right entrance has three doors, canted inwards, to
bars and hallway (alike): part-glazed with 4-centred light and
multi-pane overlight. Chamfered plinth; square panels of
imitation timber-framing; mullion and transom windows, that to
left has four lights, that to right has two lights, with
ovolo-moulded mullions and transoms; band of imitation
timber-framing over. Ovolo-moulded cornice.
INTERIOR: the tap room, to left, has decorative close
studding; stone chimneypiece has 4-centred arch, a plaster
relief of a cardinal's hat above. The lounge, to rear, has
c1900 panelling and boxed beams; similar stone chimneypiece
and Tudor style overmantel; fixed benches around the walls;
the windows have stained glass depicting a cardinal's hat. The
hall has a panelled dado with lozenge decoration. Open-newel
staircase has rod-on-vase balusters with square knops and
shaped handrail. Snug to left has decorative close studding.
HISTORICAL NOTE: there has been a public house on this site
called The Cardinal's Hat since at least 1497. John Gaskell, a
London carrier, bought the property in 1757 and subsequently
rebuilt it. In 1814 the property reverted to an inn, then
called the Coventry Arms. (Huges, P. and Molyneux, N.:
Worcester Street: Friar Street: Worcester: 1984-: PP. 13-14).
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 488800
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hughes, P, Molyneux, N, Friar Street, (1984), 13-14
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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