65A, 65B AND 65C, HIGH STREET, 1 AND 1A, BANK STREET

1 AND 1A, BANK STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1389902
Date first listed:: 22-May-1954
List Entry Name:: 65A, 65B AND 65C, HIGH STREET, 1 AND 1A, BANK STREET
Statutory Address:: 1 AND 1A, BANK STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1389902
Date first listed:: 22-May-1954
Date of most recent amendment:: 27-Jun-2001
List Entry Name:: 65A, 65B AND 65C, HIGH STREET, 1 AND 1A, BANK STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 1 AND 1A, BANK STREET
Statutory Address 2:: 65A, 65B AND 65C, HIGH STREET

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.

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: 1 AND 1A, BANK STREET
Statutory Address:: 65A, 65B AND 65C, 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:: SO 84970 54947

Details

WORCESTER

SO8454NE HIGH STREET 620-1/16/344 (West side) 22/05/54 Nos.65A, 65B AND 65C Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET (West side) Nos.65 AND 66 The Old Bank (No.66))

GV II

Includes: Nos.1 AND 1A BANK STREET. Bank, now shops and offices. Bank opened 1761, with later additions and alterations including c1980s ground floor shop fronts. Reddish-orange brick in Flemish bond with ashlar quoins, sills, architraves, keystones, cornice and copings; concealed roof, tall brick stacks with cornices, some with pots. EXTERIOR; 3 storeys, 2:1:2 first floor windows. Central breakforward with pediment in parapet. Horizontal rustication remains to ends of ground floor, continuous first-floor sill band. End quoins from first through second floors, rusticated pilasters to breakforward; modillion cornice. Coped parapet. 1/1 horned sashes in plain reveals throughout, those to outer bays are segmental arched and with keystones, those to second floor have moulded sills, that to first-floor centre bay has eared architrave, pulvinated frieze and dentil cornice, that to second-floor centre bay has eared architrave with raised centre. Parapet has sunk panels over outer windows. Ground floor: renewed rustication between shops, otherwise plate glass shop fronts, all renewed. Left return: 3 storeys, 12 first-floor windows. Quoins at right end. Ground floor has rusticated, drawn into voussoirs over windows; continuous first-floor sill band. Ground floor has round-arched windows, 1/1 horned sashes. First and second floors have 1/1 segmental-arched horned sashes with segmental arches and keystones, all in plain reveals and those to second floor with moulded sills; the fourth window has pedimented stuccoed surround. Modillion cornice and coped parapet. To left end a loading bay; off-centre left entrance a 6-raised-and-fielded-panel door with fanlight; further entrance, steps to glazed door with fanlight. INTERIOR: retains original joinery and plasterwork including moulded cornices. Nos 62 to 65 (consecutive) (qqv) form a group of late C18 properties.

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 488853
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.