21, The Cross
21, THE CROSS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390191
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 21, The Cross
- Statutory Address:
- 21, THE CROSS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390191
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 21, The Cross
- Statutory Address 1:
- 21, THE CROSS
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:
- 21, THE CROSS
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:
- SO8495455063
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 12/10/2016
SO 8455 SE
620-1/12/602
WORCESTER,
THE CROSS (West side),
No.21
22/05/54
GV
II
House, now shop and residential. c.1770 with later additions and alterations
including c.1970s ground floor shop front. Red brick in Flemish
bond with ashlar sills and lintels; plain tile roof, hipped to
front and right end brick stack with pots. 4 storeys, 3
first-floor windows. 6/6 flush sashes to first and second
floors, all with sills and chanelled lintels with raised
keystones. Plate-glass shop front canted into glazed entrance,
fascia.
INTERIOR: ground floor noted as gutted, otherwise not
inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Nos 20 (qv) and 21, The Cross form a
significant group of listed buildings at this city centre
crossroads together with Church of St Nicholas and Lloyds
Bank, The Cross (qqv) and Nos 1, 1A and 3, Angel Street,
together with Nos 11 and 12, Foregate (qqv) and Little Venice
Restaurant, St Nicholas Street (qv). They also have group
value with other listed buildings in The Cross (qqv), and all
forming an important visual framework for this entrance to
Worcester city centre.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 489161
- 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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