18 And 20, Silver Street

WORCESTER

SO8555SW SILVER STREET 620-1/13/540 (East side) 08/03/74 Nos.18 AND 20

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Former Worcester Infirmary and attached building, now shop and attached building. 1745 with later additions and alterations including stuccoing of front facade and shop front of late C19, mid C20 re-roofing, and renovations to shop front c1980s. Stucco over brick to front facade and pinkish-red brick to left return; corrugated asbestos roof; rear range of pinkish-red brick with some timber-framing and plain tile roof. PLAN: truncated U-plan with infill at rear. EXTERIOR: main range of 2 storeys, 5 + 4 first-floor windows. First floor has casement windows in near-flush metal frames. Ground floor: central entrance a 6-raised-and-fielded-panel door in fluted architrave with lion masks to angles, pulvinated frieze and cornice. Shop fronts have end pilasters and to doorways surmounted by upshots and with continuous frieze. Plate-glass windows and glazed entrances. The rear range of 2 storeys and attic, 3 first-floor windows. Square panels of timber framing to gable end. Remains of sash and casement windows; ground floor has boarded openings. INTERIOR: front part has axial beam with ovolo chamfer to left part and 3 transverse chamfered beams to right part. HISTORICAL NOTE: the Worcester Royal Infirmary first opened in this building in c1745. (Worcestershire Historical Society Occasional Papers: Lane J: Worcester Infirmary in the Eighteenth Century: 1992-: 2-6).