45, 46 (The Greyhound) and 47 New Street

45, 46 (The Greyhound) and 47, New Street, WR1 2DL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1390021
Date first listed:: 08-Mar-1974
List Entry Name:: 45, 46 (The Greyhound) and 47 New Street
Statutory Address:: 45, 46 (The Greyhound) and 47, New Street, WR1 2DL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1390021
Date first listed:: 08-Mar-1974
List Entry Name:: 45, 46 (The Greyhound) and 47 New Street
Statutory Address 1:: 45, 46 (The Greyhound) and 47, New Street, WR1 2DL

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: 45, 46 (The Greyhound) and 47, New Street, WR1 2DL

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 85142 54868

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 2 October 2023 to amend the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards

SO8554NW 620-1/17/459

WORCESTER NEW STREET (West side) Nos.45, 46 (The Greyhound) and 47

(Formerly listed as Nos.45, 46 AND 47 The Old Greyhound Inn (No.46))

08/03/74

GV II

Inn, possibly with two houses, now inn and two shops. Incorporates entrance to Reindeer Court Shopping Arcade. Numbered right to left, described left to right. Probably c1801 for James Durnford with earlier origins and later additions and alterations C19 including shop fronts.

Reddish brick in Flemish bond with gauged brick arches and stone sills; ground floor stuccoed and painted to centre, plain tile roof and tall brick stack with oversailing course and pots to party-wall, off-centre right.

EXTERIOR: two storeys with attics, five first-floor windows. Modillion eaves band. First floor has (from left) two 6/6 sashes, two tripartite windows with 6/6 between 4/4 sashes and one 6/6 sash, all in near-flush frames and with flat arches and sills. Four renewed flat-roofed attic dormers have 3/3 sashes, those two to centre are wider and have pairs of sashes.

Ground floor: plinth to centre. At left a shop front with fluted pilasters and fascia with cornice, entrance at left a four-panel door, the upper panels glazed and lower panels flush beaded, four-pane fixed light shop window on brick plinth. Next a carriage entrance with elliptical arch of gauged brick and plank doors. Next a tripartite window with 6/6 between 2/2 ashes and sill. Entrance a two-raised-and-fielded-panel door with overlight in timber surround with cornice. Two round-arched windows (renewed plate glass with margin lights) and further entrance a two-raised-and-fielded-panel door with fanlight in tooled architrave. To right a shop front with fluted pilasters to ends and door, continuous frieze and cornice; shop window on plinth has three plate-glass panes; incorporating end entrance a four-panel door, the lower panels flush-beaded, the upper panels glazed, overlight with margin lights. Rear retains 6/6, 8/8 and 3/3 sashes, all under elliptical arches. Modillion eaves.

INTERIOR: not inspected.

HISTORICAL NOTE: The Greyhound Inn was so-called by 1766 but may have been an inn before that date. In 1801-2 James Durnford bought it and carried out some rebuilding.

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 488972
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.