23, MEALCHEAPEN STREET
23, MEALCHEAPEN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390007
- Date first listed:
- 05-Apr-1971
- List Entry Name:
- 23, MEALCHEAPEN STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 23, MEALCHEAPEN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390007
- Date first listed:
- 05-Apr-1971
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Jun-2001
- List Entry Name:
- 23, MEALCHEAPEN STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 23, 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:
- 23, 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:
- SO 85082 54965
Details
WORCESTER
SO8554NW MEALCHEAPEN STREET
620-1/17/442 (South side)
05/04/71 No.23
GV II
Shop and house. Early C19 probably with earlier origins and
later additions and alterations including c1970/80s
ground-floor shop front. For William Thompson, grocer.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 2 first-floor windows. Reddish-brown brick
in Flemish bond with rubbed red brick flat arches; hipped plain
tile roof, partly-rebuilt tall right side stack with
oversailing course; cast-iron balconettes and timber cornice.
First floor has plate-glass windows. Second floor has 3/6 flush
sashes and balconettes with 2 levels of rails. All windows have
flat arches of gauged brick; renewed first-floor sills.
Crowning modillion cornice. Ground floor has plate-glass shop
front which extends across No.22 (not included).
INTERIOR: ground floor retains no evidence of original plan
form. Lowered ceiling obscures evidence of any original
plasterwork. Hughes notes that this retains the upper part of a
Regency staircase.
HISTORICAL NOTE: 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-: 199-200, 226).
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 488958
- 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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