4, Edgar Street

WORCESTER

SO8554SW EDGAR STREET 620-1/20/221 (South side) 22/05/54 No.4

GV II

House, now offices. c1730s with later additions and alterations. Reddish-brown brick in Flemish bond with stone sills and stucco lintel; plain tile roof, end brick stacks (that to left shared with No.5 (qv)) with oversailing course and pots; cast-iron grille. PLAN: double depth with hall and stairwell between. 3 storeys on half-basement, plus attic, one first-floor window. Chamfered plinth with grille. First floor has wide canted bay on wine-glass stem with 6/1 horned sashes and with pilasters between, surmounted by balustrade. Second floor has two 9/9 sashes in near-flush frames with sills and under elliptical arches. Moulded cornice. Ground floor: entrance to left a 6-raised-and-fielded-panel door with Gothic glazing bars to fanlight; hood on brackets. At right a tripartite window with 6/6 between 2/2 sashes, lintel chanelled into voussoirs. Box dormer to attic has casement windows. Rear retains 8/8 and 8/12 sashes. INTERIOR: to front ground-floor room an Aesthetic Movement fireplace with tiles. Hallway has panelled dado and open newel staircase to full height with rod on bobbin balusters. Kitchen at rear has tall, wide fireplace with eystone.; 2-panel door with HL hings. Barrel-vaulted basement with coal shute. First floor has 2-raised-and-fielded-panel door with HL hinge and another tiled Victorian fireplace to front room; rear room has bolection-moulded fireplace with Delft tiles with flaoral motif. 2 further 2-panel doors. Second floor: similar doors with HL hinges; Victorian fireplace to front. Attic has 6-panel door.

Nos 2-16 (consecutive) Edgar Street (qqv) form a significant group, together with Nos 28-34 (even) Sidbury; No.12 College Precincts; Tower House, No.1 Severn Street; and Edgar Tower, College Green (qqv). Edgar Street (in which all the buildings are listed) is a fine example of a Georgian street and it forms part of the setting for the Cathedral (qv). (Victoria County Histories: Styles P: Victoria History of the County of Warwickshire: 1945-: 206-12).