5, Friar Street

WORCESTER

SO8554NW FRIAR STREET 620-1/17/280 (East side) 05/04/71 No.5

GV II

House, now café on ground- and first-floor, residential on second-floor. Believed to have origins in the C16 with later additions and alterations including re-fronting/re-building in the C18. Brick, painted to ground-floor, under hipped plain clay tile roof. No visible stacks. Painted stone sills. Timber shop-front. Original plan, double-fronted, double-depth with staircase between front and rear rooms; ground-floor now open plan. Symmetrical elevation. Three storeys. Two first-floor windows, 8/8 sashes in near-flush frames under flat gauged-brick arches, sills. 4/4 sashes to second-floor. Dentilled eaves. Central part-glazed recessed door to largely 1920's shopfront which has pilasters, console brackets and integral blind over fascia panel. Separate access to upper floors via entrance in left return. HISTORICAL NOTE: prior to insertion of the shop-front in the 1920's, the premises were a baker's shop with a pedimented doorway flanked by sash windows. (Worcester Streets: Hughes P and Molyneux N: Friar Street: Worcester: 1984-: 1-3).