43, FRIAR STREET
43, FRIAR STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389855
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 43, FRIAR STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 43, FRIAR STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389855
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 43, FRIAR STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 43, 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:
- 43, 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 85153 54556
Details
WORCESTER
SO8554NW FRIAR STREET
620-1/17/299 (East side)
22/05/54 No.43
GV II
Formerly known as: No.9 SIDBURY.
House, now shop. Dated 1642 on plaque, with stuccoing to front
facade and re-roofing c1820-30. For Richard Hodgkins, tallow
chandler. Timber frame with painted stucco to front facade,
brick to rear and with slate roof. Two and a half storeys with
cellar, 2 bays. 2 bays deep. Jettied first floor and upper
stage; bressumer beams have ovolo, hollow and ovolo moulding,
the upper beam is on corbels. The upper storey has small box
frames. Bulge to right at first floor indicates the position
of a main post. First floor has long, 8-light mullion and
transom window with chamfered mullions and transoms and sill
on corbels. Date plaque to front has carved dragons. Entrance
a plank door to left. Shop front has two -pane windows on
plinths, canted in to central glazed shop entrance.
INTERIOR: ground floor wall to left has exposed square panels
of timber framing, to right an exposed panel of wattle and
daub; chamfered spine beam and cross beam. Wide floorboards.
First floor has exposed square panels of timber framing; cross
beam on jowled post at rear; fireplace at right with chamfered
bressumer; 2-fielded-panel door and plank door to attic.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the inventory of Richard Hodgkins, tallow
chandler, lists the following rooms: 'forestreete chamber,
studdy, chamber over the kitchen, toploft, kitchen, buttery,
sellar, washhouse, workhouse. Value ,135.
(Hughes, P.M.: Worcester. Buildings and the Building Trade
1540-1650. PhD: Birmingham University: 1990-: 442-43).
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 488806
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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