59, Sidbury

WORCESTER

SO8554SW SIDBURY 620-1/20/525 (North East side) 08/03/74 No.59

GV II

House now shop with flat. C16 with later additions and alterations including shop front and bay of c1900 and extension to rear c1970-80. Timber framed with some wattle and daub, stuccoed front facade and renewed plain tile roof. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, one first-floor window. First floor has canted bay with pair of unequally-hung 6/1 between 4/1 horned sashes and with fluted pilasters between windows and modillion cornice which continues across eaves. Ground floor: end fluted pilasters and raised corbels; left entrance a glazed door; further entrance at left to passageway a 6-raised-and-fielded-panel door with blind overlight with 2 panels and moulded architrave and with further similar pilaster. Glazed shop window on brick apron. INTERIOR: ground floor has axial beams. Alleyway at left has exposed panels of timber framing and main post. HISTORICAL NOTE: Hughes notes that there are the remnants of 2 ranges parallel to the street, each with clasped purlin roofs, apparently separated by a gap of approximately 1.5 metres. Nos 57-69 (odd) Sidbury (qqv) form a good group. (Hughes P: Buildings and the Building Trade in Worcester 1540-1650: PhD thesis: 1990-: 442).