49, Foregate Street

49 Foregate Street is a house that has been converted into a shop with offices above. It was likely built around 1720, with a new front added around 1830 and further changes made, including a shop window from the 1970s. The building features stucco over brick and a renewed hipped roof covered with cement tiles. It has a timber doorcase and a cast-iron balcony.

The structure is three storeys high and has two windows on the first floor. The stucco is scored to resemble ashlar, with decorative end pilasters on the first and second floors that feature incised Greek fret designs and foliate motifs on the chamfered caps. The building has a low coped parapet. The first and second floors have 6/6 sash windows, with the first-floor windows being taller and the second-floor windows having sills, all set in plain reveals. The first floor also boasts a continuous balcony supported by ornate brackets from the Carron Company, featuring a double-heart-and-anthemeion motif. On the ground floor, there is an entrance on the left with a six-fielded panel door and a fanlight that has Gothick glazing bars, framed by an architrave with pilasters and an open pediment.

Inside, the hallway has been incorporated into the front room but still retains plasterwork with a modillion cornice. The closed string, dog-leg staircase features squat rod-on-vase balusters, a shaped handrail, and newel posts that extend to the full height of the staircase.

Historically, during the 18th century, Foregate Street was referred to as 'the mall.' Tymbs' Worcester Guide from 1802 notes that Foregate Street was well paved and wide enough to allow for good air circulation, making it a popular place for fashionable promenades.

The Shire Hall, the Statue of Queen Victoria, the City Museum and Library, and several other buildings on Foregate Street, including 15, 19, 22, 23, 24, 28, and 33-46, along with No. 49, form a significant architectural group.