Merchants House
MERCHANTS HOUSE, QUAY STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390043
- Date first listed:
- 05-Apr-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Merchants House
- Statutory Address:
- MERCHANTS HOUSE, QUAY STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390043
- Date first listed:
- 05-Apr-1971
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 12-Jun-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Merchants House
- Statutory Address 1:
- MERCHANTS HOUSE, QUAY 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:
- MERCHANTS HOUSE, QUAY 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 84760 54784
Details
WORCESTER
SO8454NE QUAY STREET
620-1/16/478 (West side)
05/04/71 Merchant's House
Formerly Listed as:
SOUTH QUAY
Warehouse occupied by
Messrs G Gascoyne)
GV II
House, now flats. Early C18 with later alterations including
conversion to flats c1980s. Reddish-brown rick in Flemish bond
with flat arches of red gauged brick, stone sills and keystones,
hipped slate roof. L-plan.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 3 first-floor windows. 6/6 sashes
throughout, all in near-flush frames and with flat arches and
fluted keystones. Low parapet. Right entrance a renewed 6-panel
door in timber surround and with cambered arch. Right return has
2 storeys with attics, 3 first-floor windows. 6/6 sashes in
near-flush frames with sills and cambered arches. Entrance at
left: renewed double 6-raised-and-fielded-panel doors with
original fanlight with radial glazing bars and arch of red gauged
brick on imposts and with keystone.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Forms a group with Gascoyne House, Bond House and Brown's
Restaurant, South Quay (qqv) and with St Andrew's Church Tower,
Deansway (qv).
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 488994
- 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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