30, College Street

WORCESTER

SO8554NW COLLEGE STREET 620-1/17/186 (West side) 05/04/71 No.30

GV II

2 houses now shop. c1808-1832 with later additions and alterations including mid-C19 shop front. Brownish-red brick in Flemish bond, painted to ground floor, with red brick arches and stone sills; slate roof and truncated brick stacks to left and right. PLAN: occupies a corner site, with splayed angle. 3 storeys, 1+1 first-floor windows. First floor has 8/8 flush sash and 4/4 flush sash to angle, both with sills, that to angle has flat brick arch. Ground-floor shop front to left has renewed pilasters and fascia; 2-light window with rounded mullions, then step to renewed part-glazed door with overlight, architrave has sunk panels. Further entrance to right a renewed part-glazed door with overlight in timber doorcase. Canted shop front to angle has columnar mullions with shaped caps and frieze between plain pilasters and with shaped corbels and cornice. Second floor has a 4/4 and a 2/2 flush sash. Toothed eaves band. Right return: renewed plate-glass window to ground floor; blocked window with inserted light to first floor; 3/3 sash to second floor; ground- and first-floor openings have cambered arches. INTERIOR: retains timber partition and winder stair to right part. Otherwise not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: not shown on Young's Map of 1808 but shown on Clements's Map of 1832. Occupies an important site at corner with College Precincts adjoining Nos. 1 and 2 (qv), and forms part of the setting for Worcester Cathedral (qv). (Young G: Map of Worcester: London: 1808-; Clements J: A Plan of the City and Environs of Worcester: Worcester: 1832-).