The Hop Market
THE HOP MARKET, 13, 14 AND 15, THE FOREGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390197
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1973
- List Entry Name:
- The Hop Market
- Statutory Address:
- THE HOP MARKET, 13, 14 AND 15, THE FOREGATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390197
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 12-Jun-2001
- List Entry Name:
- The Hop Market
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE HOP MARKET, 13, 14 AND 15, THE FOREGATE
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:
- THE HOP MARKET, 13, 14 AND 15, THE FOREGATE
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:
- SO8496455121
Details
SO8455SE
620-1/12/610
20/09/73
WORCESTER
THE FOREGATE
(East side)
No.13, 14 AND 15
The Hop Market
(Formerly Listed as:
THE FOREGATE
(East side)
Nos.14 AND 15
The Hop Market Hotel)
GV
II
Hotel and bank, now shops and offices. Dated 1900 with later
alterations and conversions to shops c1980. Architect said to
be Alfred B Rowe (of Henry Rowe and Son). Red brick and
terracotta with concealed roof. French chateau and Tudor-style
elements. L-plan with inner courtyard. Three storeys with
attics, seven bays to main facade (The Foregate) and six bays
to left return on Sansome Street. Main facade: Doric pilasters
between bays to each floor, those to second floor have
capitals incorporated into modillion cornice. Arcaded eaves
band. Through first and second floors are bows to second,
fourth and sixth bays with central round-arched lights with
casement windows and fanlights with radial glazing bars
between transomed lights, all in tooled architraves. To
alternate bays on first floor are 4-light windows, with Ionic
column-on-vase mullions and transoms, window at left is a
segmental bow; above these to second floor are 3-round-arched
windows with continuous entablature and Ionic columns on
plinths between. Bands between floors have carved panels to
bows and 'HOP MARKET / COMMERCIAL / HOTEL / BANK' to alternate
bays. Attic dormers with shaped pedimental features and gables
with shaped pediments with scrolls, urns and finials. Curved
angle at left has similar 2-light fenestration and is crowned
by domed cupola with detached columns supporting broken
entablature with scrolls above. Ground floor has
elliptically-arched carriageway to third bay and entrance with
segmental pediment on brackets to seventh bay, and
fenestration similar to that on first floor. Sansome Street
elevation similar but with only one bow to fifth bay which has
on ground floor an elliptically-arched entrance with scrolled
broken pediment with putti, festoon and swag.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Pevsner describes it as having 'a dash of the
Loire ... Some Tudor touches are also noticeable'.
Nos 11-15 (consecutive) The Foregate comprise a fine late
Victorian commercial group in a spirited Northern Renaissance
style.
A large building which occupies an important corner site at
the junctions of Sansome Street, Foregate Street, Shaw Street
and The Foregate, this is a significant streetscape feature,
having group value and helping to frame the view to the High
Street.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Worcestershire:
Harmondsworth: 1968-1985: 331-2).
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 489167
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, (1968), 331-332
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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