83 AND 84, HIGH STREET
83 AND 84, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389910
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 83 AND 84, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 83 AND 84, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389910
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Jun-2001
- List Entry Name:
- 83 AND 84, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 83 AND 84, 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:
- 83 AND 84, 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 84994 54852
Details
WORCESTER
SO8454NE HIGH STREET
620-1/16/352 (West side)
22/05/54 Nos.83 AND 84
Formerly Listed as:
HIGH STREET
(West side)
Nos.83, 83A AND 84)
GV II
House, now shop. Early C18 with origins in the mid C17 and with
later additions and alterations including c1990s ground-floor
shop front. Pinkish-red brick in Flemish bond with stucco
keystones and timber sills and cornice; plain tile roof. 3
storeys, 6 first-floor windows. First-floor has 1/1 flush sashes.
3-course first-floor band. Second-floor has 6/6 flush sashes. All
windows with flat arches of gauged brick and raised keystones
embellished with foliate motifs; all keystones have cornices.
Renewed crowning cornice. Ground floor: glazed shop front has
timber columns, left end and central lazed entrances.
INTERIOR: first-floor noted as retaining original joinery
including panelled shutters, ground floor renewed; fine early C18
staircase remains on second-floor within stair turret, large
cross-section moulded handrail, substantial turned vase
balusters, ball finials; attic retains interrupted tie-beam
trusses to front range which have been ut back to accommodate the
C18 refronting in brick. 2-panel door retained in attic as is an
out-of-situ section of early C19 balustrading with slender turned
balusters with knops and turned newel posts, a small section of
dado moulding in the stair turret on the second-floor indicates
where this later stair had replaced the C18 stair on the lower
floors. The rear wing also contains two C17 roof trusses and some
framing. (Dr Pat Hughes: Nos. 83/84 High Street, Worcester:
1999-).
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 488861
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hughes, P, Nos 83/84 High Street, Worcester, (1999)
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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