16 AND 17, NEW STREET
16 AND 17, NEW STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390015
- Date first listed:
- 08-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- 16 AND 17, NEW STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 16 AND 17, NEW STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390015
- Date first listed:
- 08-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- 16 AND 17, NEW STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 16 AND 17, 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:
- 16 AND 17, 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:
- SO8515854855
Details
WORCESTER
SO8554NW NEW STREET
620-1/17/453 (East side)
08/03/74 Nos.16 AND 17
GV II
2 houses, now 2 shops with flat over. Numbered right to left,
described left to right. Early C18 with possible earlier
origins, later additions and alterations including c1840-60 and
c1980's shop fronts.
Reddish-brown brick in Flemish bond with flat arches of red
gauged brick and ashlar sills and cornice; concealed roof; some
evidence of timber-framing to interior.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 4 first-floor windows. First floor has 6/6
sashes; second floor has 3/3 sashes; all in plain reveals, with
sills and flat arches of gauged brick. Crowning frieze, moulded
cornice and low coped parapet. Off-centre left entrance a
6-raised-and-fielded-panel door with reeded frieze and fanlight
with radial glazing bars in doorcase with open dentil pediment
on plain pilasters. Shop front to left has 6-pane window,
fascia, brackets and cornice. Shop front to right has 6-pane
window on apron canted in to entrance at right a art-glazed
door, frieze and cornice with outer pilasters surmounted by
corbels and acroteria.
INTERIOR: upper rooms appear to have been heightened. Some
exposed timber framing to internal walls: attic to right house
(No.16) has panels of square framing to 2 walls. Some moulded
cornices. Dogleg closed string staircases, o full height at
left and from first floor at right with splat balusters. To
right house attic has exposed purlins; rear has exposed wall
plate. Gable end has queen struts. 2-panel doors, one with
raised-and-fielded panels.
HISTORICAL NOTE: New Street had changed its name from the
medieval Glover Street by 1523. Hughes: 'New Street, in the 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-: 200).
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 488966
- 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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