96, HIGH STREET
96, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389913
- Date first listed:
- 05-Apr-1971
- List Entry Name:
- 96, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 96, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389913
- Date first listed:
- 05-Apr-1971
- List Entry Name:
- 96, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 96, 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:
- 96, 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:
- SO8502354728
Details
WORCESTER
SO8554NW HIGH STREET
620-1/17/355 (West side)
05/04/71 No.96
GV II
House, part of terrace; now shop and offices. c1750-60 with later
additions and alterations. Red brick with stone dressings, slate
roof with parapet, stack to left front roof slope with
oversailing detail. Timber shop front. Narrow burgage plot with
principal axis at right-angles to street. 3 storeys and basement.
3 first-floor windows. Stone detailing includes sills and capped
keystones to window heads. 6/6 near-flush-frame sashes all under
flat gauged brick arches. Late C19 shopfront with late C20
repairs and alterations, slender fluted pilasters, fascia with
console brackets and cornice, central panelled pillar with
recessed entrance behind, shallow panelled stall riser, slender
turned mullions with moulded plinths and capitals, 2-panel door
to shop, shallow raised and fielded with glazed panel above,
overlight. 6-panel door to left with overlight gives access to
upper floors.
New roof structure c1988.
HISTORIC NOTE: A photograph forming part of a 1911 advert for
'Sigley's China Store' at 96 High Street (qv) shows the same
basic form of shopfront but without the central panelled pillar.
This suggests the latter may have been introduced for structural
reasons.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 488864
- 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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