4 and 5, Mealcheapen Street
4 AND 5, MEALCHEAPEN STREET, WORCESTER, WR1 2DH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389996
- Date first listed:
- 05-Apr-1971
- List Entry Name:
- 4 and 5, Mealcheapen Street
- Statutory Address:
- 4 AND 5, MEALCHEAPEN STREET, WORCESTER, WR1 2DH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389996
- Date first listed:
- 05-Apr-1971
- List Entry Name:
- 4 and 5, Mealcheapen Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- 4 AND 5, MEALCHEAPEN STREET, WORCESTER, WR1 2DH
- Statutory Address 2:
- 4 AND 5, MEALCHEAPEN STREET, WORCESTER, WR1 2DH
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:
- 4 AND 5, MEALCHEAPEN STREET, WORCESTER, WR1 2DH
- Statutory Address:
- 4 AND 5, MEALCHEAPEN STREET, WORCESTER, WR1 2DH
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:
- SO8509654948
Details
SO8554NW
620-1/17/431
WORCESTER
MEALCHEAPEN STREET (South side)
Nos.4 and 5
05/04/71
GV
II
Two terraced houses, now shops with offices. c1656 with facade c1765 and later additions and alterations including c1980s ground-floor shop fronts. Purplish-red brick in Flemish bond with rubbed red brick flat arches and stone sills and keystones, timber cornice, plain tile roof with party-wall and right end red brick stack with oversailing course.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys plus attics to left, 4 first-floor windows (2:2). First and second floors have 6/6 near-flush sashes in plain reveals, with sills, and flat arches with raised keystones throughout. 2 roof dormers with casement windows.Crowning cornice. Ground floor: at left a passage opening; shop fronts in Victorian style have end pilasters with corbel brackets, plate glass windows with slender mullions on panelled aprons and glazed central door, fascia and cornice.
INTERIORS: roof structure said to be c1656, a survival from an earlier house, 4 bays divided by open trusses, each with a collar and ling braces, most rafters in place. Timbers blackened (probably by a fire of 1765 which destroyed No.6 (qv)).
HISTORICAL NOTE: Hughes notes that after the fire of 1765 the front of No.5 was rebuilt. Mealcheapen Street flourished particularly in the C16 and early C17, predominantly as a retail outlet; Hughes: 'it was the proximity to the Cornmarket that gave the street much of its prosperity and led to the establishment of a number of large inns.' One build with No.6 (qv).
All the listed buildings in Mealcheapen Street form a group with the listed buildings in Cornmarket and with Church of St Swithun, Church Street (qqv).
(Hughes P: Buildings and the Building Trade in Worcester 1540-1650: PhD thesis: 1990: 199-200, 207).
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 488947
- 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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