Star Hotel

SO8455SE 620-1/12/268

WORCESTER FOREGATE STREET (East side) Nos. 61 and 62, Star Hotel

(Formerly listed under FRIAR STREET)

(Formerly listed as FRIAR STREET (West side) No. 61 The Star Hotel, previously listed as FRIAR STREET (West side) Nos. 62, 64 and 66 Victoria House)

05/04/71

GV II Hotel. c1820, extended to south in same style by 1886 (shallow break forward at this point). Later additions and alterations to rear. Red brick in Flemish bond, painted stucco ground-floor and dressings, cast-iron balcony and embellishments. Concealed slate roof.

Four storeys. Twelve (3:9) first-floor windows. Stucco detailing includes horizontal rustication to ground-floor; wide carriage opening to left break forward has rusticated Doric three-quarter engaged Doric pillars; tooled keystones with cornices to first-, second-, and third-floor openings; crowning frieze and cornice, low-coped parapet. Windows are 1/1 sashes throughout, those to the left form a triple unit window, the outer sashes being narrower, all in plain reveals with gauged flat arches and sills. Off-centre right entrance, Two steps to double four-panel doors, the upper panels round arched; cambered arch overlight; glazed C20 canopy. Double planked-doors to carriage opening. To rear wing are tall first-floor windows and corbelled-out first-floor stacks, to former assembly room.

INTERIOR: Stair hall off-centre left, wide staircase has ornate cast-iron balusters; some original plasterwork; modillion cornice to hall; some tooled architraves to doors with lions' masks to corners.

SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Continuous first-floor balcony has scrolled ornamental balustrade and incorporates five lamp brackets to entrances and ends; second-floor windows have individual window boxes with scroll motif.

Forms a group with numbers 2-6 and 63-66 (qqv).

(Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Worcestershire: Harmondsworth: 1968-1985: 332).