22, Foregate Street

WORCESTER

SO8455SE FRIAR STREET 620-1/12/247 (East side) 22/05/54 No.22

GV II

House, now shop with flats over. c1770, with later additions and alterations including c1970s ground-floor shop front and dormer. Red brick in Flemish bond with stucco to ground floor, stone bands and cornice; hipped slate roof and truncated left end brick stack with pot. 3 storeys and attic, 3 first-floor windows. First and second floors have 6/6 near-flush sashes with sills and flat arches of gauged brick. Second-floor band. Frieze and cornice over second floor. Raised parapet with frieze and copings. Flat-topped roof dormer has 3/3 sash. Ground floor retains entrance a 4-panel door (upper panels glazed, otherwise flush beaded, fanlight with margin-lights, pilastered surround with scrolled corbels and open pediment. Otherwise glazed shop front. Lead rainwater head and fallpipe. Rear retains two tripartite windows with 6/6 between 2/2 sashes in cambered-arched opening; gabled attic dormer with casement windows. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: during the C18 Foregate Street was known as 'the mall' and Tymbs' Worcester Guide of 1802 notes, 'the Foregate Street itself, by being well paved and sufficiently broad to admit a full circulation of air seems to be generally resorted to as a fashionable promenade.' The Shire Hall, Statue of Queen Victoria, City Museum and Library and Nos 15, 19, 22, 23, 24, 28, Nos 33-46 (consecutive) and No.49 Foregate Street (qqv) form a good group. (Worcestershire Historical Society Occasional Papers: Whitehead D: Urban Renewal and Suburban Growth: The Shaping of Georgian Worcester: 1989-: 12; Tymbs: Worcester Guide: Worcester: 1802-: 60).