18 AND 20, SILVER STREET
18 AND 20, SILVER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390177
- Date first listed:
- 08-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- 18 AND 20, SILVER STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 18 AND 20, SILVER STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390177
- Date first listed:
- 08-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- 18 AND 20, SILVER STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 18 AND 20, SILVER 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:
- 18 AND 20, SILVER 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:
- SO8518755087
Details
WORCESTER
SO8555SW SILVER STREET
620-1/13/540 (East side)
08/03/74 Nos.18 AND 20
II
Former Worcester Infirmary and attached building, now shop and
attached building. 1745 with later additions and alterations
including stuccoing of front facade and shop front of late C19,
mid C20 re-roofing, and renovations to shop front c1980s. Stucco
over brick to front facade and pinkish-red brick to left return;
corrugated asbestos roof; rear range of pinkish-red brick with
some timber-framing and plain tile roof.
PLAN: truncated U-plan with infill at rear.
EXTERIOR: main range of 2 storeys, 5 + 4 first-floor windows.
First floor has casement windows in near-flush metal frames.
Ground floor: central entrance a 6-raised-and-fielded-panel door
in fluted architrave with lion masks to angles, pulvinated frieze
and cornice. Shop fronts have end pilasters and to doorways
surmounted by upshots and with continuous frieze. Plate-glass
windows and glazed entrances. The rear range of 2 storeys and
attic, 3 first-floor windows. Square panels of timber framing to
gable end. Remains of sash and casement windows; ground floor has
boarded openings.
INTERIOR: front part has axial beam with ovolo chamfer to left
part and 3 transverse chamfered beams to right part.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the Worcester Royal Infirmary first opened in
this building in c1745.
(Worcestershire Historical Society Occasional Papers: Lane J:
Worcester Infirmary in the Eighteenth Century: 1992-: 2-6).
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 489147
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Lane, J, Worcestershire Historical Society Occasional Papers in Worcester Infirmary in the Eighteenth Century, (1992)
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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