37, 39, 41 and 41A, St Johns

37, 39, 41 AND 41A, ST JOHNS, WORCESTER, WR2 5AG

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1390113
Date first listed:
08-Mar-1974
List Entry Name:
37, 39, 41 and 41A, St Johns
Statutory Address:
37, 39, 41 AND 41A, ST JOHNS, WORCESTER, WR2 5AG
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1390113
Date first listed:
08-Mar-1974
List Entry Name:
37, 39, 41 and 41A, St Johns
Statutory Address 1:
37, 39, 41 AND 41A, ST JOHNS, WORCESTER, WR2 5AG

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
37, 39, 41 AND 41A, ST JOHNS, WORCESTER, WR2 5AG

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 84043 54410

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 19/10/2016

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620-1/19/578

WORCESTER
ST JOHNS (South East side)
Nos. 37, 39, 41 and 41A

(Formerly listed as Nos. 37, 39, 41 and 41A ST JOHN'S)

08/03/74

GV
II
4 houses, part of terrace; now with shops on ground-floor. Late C18 with later additions and alterations. Red brick with stone details. Slate roof. Plain eaves band to Nos 37 and 39, dentilled eaves to right pair. Stack to front roof slope at party-wall between Nos 41 and 41A and to right-hand end, both with oversailing detail and some pots. Timber shop front to No.41 with brass sills and mullions.

PLAN: 37 and 39 double-depth rhomboidal plan with lobby separating front and rear rooms. Central entrance to No.37 in left-return off through-passage. 41 and 41A originally double-depth, now open plan. 3 storeys and cellars. 4 first-floor windows (2:2). Stone details include sills to left pair of houses. First-floor windows are 8/8, second-floor are 4/4 and 3/3 to 41 and 41A; to left in plain reveals with sills and flat gauged brick arches; windows to right have near-flush-frames, those to first-floor under segmental arched heads. C20 door to pedestrian through-passage at ground-floor left accesses rear of properties. Shop fronts to Nos 37, 39 and 41A are mid-late C20; that to No.41 is C19/early C20, central splayed recessed entrance, three-quarter glazed door; overlight. Slender circular cross-section mullions.

INTERIORS: not inspected.

SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Fire insurance plaque to Nos 41 and 41A.

HISTORICAL NOTE: The through-passage accessed the terrace of small dwellings (now demolished) situated within the curtilage of and to the rear of Nos 37 and 39. Such humble housing was common in Worcester, referred to as 'courts'; all that remains are some cast-iron name-plates.

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
489083
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.

Ordnance survey map of 37, 39, 41 and 41A, St Johns

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