45-47, THE TYTHING

WORCESTER

SO8455NE THE TYTHING 620-1/8/641 (West side) 08/03/74 Nos.45 TO 47 (Consecutive)

GV II

3 houses, now restaurant and shops, part of terrace. C18 refronting of earlier properties, with later additions and alterations. Painted stucco, red-brick and painted brick; plain clay tiles with higher ridge line to left house. Stacks to ridge and rear roof slope at right party-wall, both with oversailing details and pots. 2 storeys and attics. 5 (2:1:2) first-floor windows. Brick detailing includes dentilled eaves. Windows to left are 2/2 sashes in plain reveals, those to centre and right are 6/6 in near-flush frames; cambered arch to centre window; sills to right pair of windows. 3 box-dormers, 3/3 sash to centre, pair of side-hung casements to left and right dormers. Altered timber shopfront to left-house; timber shopfront to centre has tiled stall risers and tiled panels inset in the pilasters, some of the tiles depict game birds; console brackets and cornice with blind-box over; shopfront to right-hand property is in stucco and has 3 plain pilasters, frieze and moulded cornice. INTERIOR: No. 45 retains staircase on upper floors with heavy section handrail and slender turned balusters, cast-iron bedroom fireplace and wide floorboards. Nos. 46 and 47 not inspected.