27, HIGH STREET
27, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389892
- Date first listed:
- 05-Apr-1971
- List Entry Name:
- 27, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 27, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389892
- Date first listed:
- 05-Apr-1971
- List Entry Name:
- 27, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 27, HIGH 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:
- 27, HIGH 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:
- SO8504354767
Details
WORCESTER
SO8554NW HIGH STREET
620-1/17/334 (East side)
05/04/71 No.27
GV II
House, now shop with offices. Mid C18 with later alterations
including shop front mid C19. Pinkish-brown brick in Flemish bond
with rubbed brick arches and timber cornice; concealed roof with
truncated right stack; timber shop front and lead rainwater head.
3 storeys, 4 first-floor windows. First and second floors have
6/6 sashes in plain reveals with flat arches, those to second
floor have sills. Moulded cornice and low, coped parapet. 5
tie-rod ends between first and second floors. Rainwaterhead and
fall-pipe to left. Ground floor retains continuous Victorian shop
front; entrance to left has 5-panel door with overlight; then
shop front has plinth, plate-glass windows divided by slender
mullions and panes curved on plan canted in to further off-centre
right entrance a glazed door with lower panel; continuous frieze
divided into panes by slender mullions; fluted Ionic pilasters to
ends and to right of left-hand entrance surmounted by dentil
entablature, acanthus modillions surmount pilasters and 2 to
centre, crowning cornice has foliate decoration. Demolished and
rebuilt in 1974, with the exception of the facade facing onto
High Street which is significant for its C18 fabric and
impressive C19 shop front.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 488843
- 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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