96, High Street

WORCESTER

SO8554NW HIGH STREET 620-1/17/355 (West side) 05/04/71 No.96

GV II

House, part of terrace; now shop and offices. c1750-60 with later additions and alterations. Red brick with stone dressings, slate roof with parapet, stack to left front roof slope with oversailing detail. Timber shop front. Narrow burgage plot with principal axis at right-angles to street. 3 storeys and basement. 3 first-floor windows. Stone detailing includes sills and capped keystones to window heads. 6/6 near-flush-frame sashes all under flat gauged brick arches. Late C19 shopfront with late C20 repairs and alterations, slender fluted pilasters, fascia with console brackets and cornice, central panelled pillar with recessed entrance behind, shallow panelled stall riser, slender turned mullions with moulded plinths and capitals, 2-panel door to shop, shallow raised and fielded with glazed panel above, overlight. 6-panel door to left with overlight gives access to upper floors. New roof structure c1988. HISTORIC NOTE: A photograph forming part of a 1911 advert for 'Sigley's China Store' at 96 High Street (qv) shows the same basic form of shopfront but without the central panelled pillar. This suggests the latter may have been introduced for structural reasons.