21, MEALCHEAPEN STREET
21, MEALCHEAPEN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390006
- Date first listed:
- 05-Apr-1971
- List Entry Name:
- 21, MEALCHEAPEN STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 21, MEALCHEAPEN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390006
- Date first listed:
- 05-Apr-1971
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Jun-2001
- List Entry Name:
- 21, MEALCHEAPEN STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 21, 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:
- 21, 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:
- SO8509154966
Details
WORCESTER
SO8554NW MEALCHEAPEN STREET
620-1/17/441 (South side)
05/04/71 No.21
GV II
House and cardmaker's shop. 1635-9 for William Bradley with
later additions and alterations including refronting and rear
range c1674-8 and stucco to front facade; c1970s ground-floor
shop front. Timber frame with facade of stucco over brick and
concealed roof.
EXTERIOR: 4 storeys, 1 first-floor window. First and second
floors each have 8/8 flush sash with sill and flat arch of
voussoirs and keystone. To third floor a blind shallow-arched
recess and central lozenge. Coped parapet. Ground floor has
outer pilasters, frieze and cornice, otherwise plate-glass
window and glazed door.
INTERIOR: ground floor has no evidence of original plan or
original features. Otherwise not inspected but noted s having
small square panels of timber-framing and evidence of 3
jetties.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the rebuilding accounts for this building
survive, submitted by William Bradley, a Worcester cardmaker in
1639 to his landlords, the Stourbridge Grammar School. Accounts
for this sort of small townhouses are rare. 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 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-: 118,144,199-200,223).
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 488957
- 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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