3 and 4, Shaw Street

3 and 4, Shaw Street, Worcester, WR1 3QQ

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1390153
Date first listed:: 05-Apr-1971
List Entry Name:: 3 and 4, Shaw Street
Statutory Address:: 3 and 4, Shaw Street, Worcester, WR1 3QQ

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1390153
Date first listed:: 05-Apr-1971
List Entry Name:: 3 and 4, Shaw Street
Statutory Address 1:: 3 and 4, Shaw Street, Worcester, WR1 3QQ

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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Location

Statutory Address:: 3 and 4, Shaw Street, Worcester, WR1 3QQ

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:: SO8489155142

Details

SO8455SE 620-1/12/515

WORCESTER SHAW STREET (north side) Nos. 3 and 4

05/04/71

GV II Pair of houses, later offices. c1820 with later additions and alterations. Pinkish-brown brick in Flemish bond with gauged red brick flat arches and stuccoed porch with marble steps; slate roof, hipped to front and tall brick stacks at front and to right and rear, that to front with pots. Built to resemble one unit with pair of central entrances.

EXTERIOR: three storeys, four first floor windows (2:2). Ground and first floors have 8/8 sashes; second floor has 4/8 sashes, all in plain reveals and with flat arches. Central entrances in shared Roman Doric porch with three 3/4 engaged columns, frieze with triglyphs and metopes, guttae and pediment. Two roll-edged steps to six-panel doors, the upper panels raised and fielded, lower panels flush reeded, in similar reveals; overlights, that to left retains margin glazing-bars. Wide eaves. Right return has 8/8 and 4/8 sashes where original and two round-arched staircase windows alike: 6/6 sashes with radial glazing bars to heads and margin-lights.

INTERIOR: some original plasterwork, otherwise not inspected.

HISTORICAL NOTE: the site to the corner of Shaw Street and Foregate Street was redeveloped in 1840 and it is possible that this development relates to the same period. A similar design to and forming a group with No.6 Shaw Street and Bank House, Farrier Street (qv). Also forms a group with Assembly Rooms, Shaw Street and Berkeley's Hospital, The Foregate (qqv).

(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Worcestershire: Harmondsworth: 1968-1985: 332).

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

Legacy System number:: 489123
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.