31, The Cross

WORCESTER

SO8455SE THE CROSS 620-1/12/604 (West side) 22/05/54 No.31

GV II

House. c1730 with later additions and alterations including ground floor shop front c1960s. Reddish-brown brick in Flemish bond with stone pilasters, keystones and sills; timber cornice; plain tile hipped roof hipped at front and left end brick stack with pot. 3 storeys with attic, 3 first-floor windows. Rusticated fluted pilasters to sides. 1/1 sashes to first and second floors in near-flush frames and with flat arches of gauged brick and fluted keystones, those to centre windows with foliate decoration; moulded sills. Modillion eaves and ovolo cornice. 2 attic dormers with 1/1 sashes. Renewed glazed shop front with glazed entrance. INTERIOR: ground floor renewed. Upper floors retain original joinery and plasterwork including panelled shutters and moulded cornices. HISTORICAL NOTE: Forms part of a significant group of listed buildings including Premises occupied by Lloyds Bank, Premises occupied by Costa, Premises occupied by Bradford and Bingley Building Society, Former Church of St Nicholas, Nos 20, 21 and 28 The Cross (qqv). These all form an important visual frame for this entrance to the city.