4 and 5, New Street
4 AND 5, NEW STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390009
- Date first listed:
- 05-Apr-1971
- List Entry Name:
- 4 and 5, New Street
- Statutory Address:
- 4 AND 5, NEW STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390009
- Date first listed:
- 05-Apr-1971
- List Entry Name:
- 4 and 5, New Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- 4 AND 5, NEW 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:
- 4 AND 5, NEW 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:
- SO8515454788
Details
SO8554NW
620-1/17/447
05/04/71
WORCESTER
NEW STREET (East side)
Nos.4 and 5
G II
House, now two shops. Numbered right to left, described left to right.
Mid C18 with later additions and alterations including shop fronts mid C19. Stucco over brick with ashlar bands and doorcase and concealed roof.
EXTERIOR: Two storeys, five first floor windows with single storey entrance bay at right. First floor has continuous sill band and six/six flush sashes with continuous cavetto-moulded band over. Ground floor: to left shop front has outer pilasters then acanthus console brackets with cornice and acroteria, panelled plinth, three-pane window with chamfered mullions canted in, to entrance at right a part-glazed door with lower panel and blocked overlight; then a central entrance a renewed door with fanlight between pilasters with fronds to caps and oval over,cornice. Then a shop front with pilasters, fascia and cornice with renewed glazing, entrance at right a part-glazed door. Further part-glazed renewed door with overlight within panelled pilasters to entrance bay, with low coped parapet. Crowning coped parapet.
INTERIOR:No.4 has axial beam and moulded cornice which continues over beam.
First floor said to retain plasterwork and joinery.
HISTORICAL NOTE: New Street had changed its name from the medieval Glover Street by 1523. Hughes: 'New Street,in its C16 and C17 phase,was a street of dwelling-houses with workshops behind.' (Hughes P: Buildings and the Building Trade in Worcester 1540-1650: PhD thesis: 1990:2000).
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 488960
- 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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