11 AND 12, MEALCHEAPEN STREET
11 AND 12, MEALCHEAPEN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390000
- Date first listed:
- 05-Apr-1971
- List Entry Name:
- 11 AND 12, MEALCHEAPEN STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 11 AND 12, MEALCHEAPEN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390000
- Date first listed:
- 05-Apr-1971
- List Entry Name:
- 11 AND 12, MEALCHEAPEN STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 11 AND 12, MEALCHEAPEN 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:
- 11 AND 12, MEALCHEAPEN 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:
- SO8514454952
Details
WORCESTER
SO8554NW MEALCHEAPEN STREET
620-1/17/435 (South side)
05/04/71 Nos.11 AND 12
GV II
House/shop, now 2 shops, that to left with flat over. Numbered
right to left, described left to right. c1690s with later
additions and alterations including range to rear of No.12 (at
left) c1768 and shop front to left of c1870's. Built for
Francis and Mary Moule. Brick, painted to left, rendered and
painted to right, with plain tile roof, hipped at left, red end
brick stack.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attics to rear, 4 first-floor windows.
Two 6/6 flush sashes, at left with sills, to right are 6-pane
casements; moulded band over first floor, modillion eaves band.
Raised copings to right. Ground floor: shop front has end
pilasters, plinth, plate-glass windows canted into glazed door,
fascia and cornice. To right: glazed shop front on plinth,
entrance to right a glazed door; entrance to passage at left
has panelled door with overlight; stanchions visible to both
shop fronts.
INTERIOR: left house (No.12) noted as having fine open-well
staircase to full height with barleytwist-on-vase balusters and
closed string; chamfered beams some with run-out stops; some
fireplaces; exposed roof timbers to attic include trenched
purlins and curved principals, exposed collar beam; doors:
8-panel, 6-panel (some with strap hinges to attic),
7-raised-and-fielded-panel, and 3-panel with s-hinges. Remains
of panelling to upper stage and some exposed rectangular
framing. Attic has close-studded partition walls. HISTORICAL
NOTE: c1700-1750 the premises were owned by John Rea,
upholsterer, his inventory of 1740 shows he used the ground
floor as a shop, with a parlour in No.11; the rear wing of
No.12 housed the kitchen.
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.'
All the listed buildings in Mealcheapen Street form a good
group with listed buildings in Cornmarket and with Church of St
Swithin, Church Street (qqv).
(Hughes P: Buildings and the Building Trade in Worcester
1540-1650: PhD thesis: 1990-: 151, 199-200, 217-8).
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 488951
- 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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