22, Foregate Street

22 Foregate Street is a house that has been converted into a shop with flats above. It was built around 1770 and has undergone later additions and alterations, including a shop front and dormer added in the 1970s. The building is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond, with stucco on the ground floor, stone bands, and a cornice. It features a hipped slate roof and a truncated brick stack with a pot on the left end. The structure has three storeys and an attic, with three first-floor windows. The first and second floors have 6/6 near-flush sash windows with sills and flat arches made of gauged brick, and there is a band on the second floor. A frieze and cornice are located above the second floor, and there is a raised parapet with a frieze and copings. The flat-topped roof dormer contains a 3/3 sash window. The ground floor retains a four-panel entrance door, with the upper panels glazed and the rest flush beaded. It has a fanlight with margin-lights, a pilastered surround with scrolled corbels, and an open pediment, while the rest of the ground floor has a glazed shop front. There is also a lead rainwater head and fallpipe. At the rear, the building retains two tripartite windows featuring 6/6 sashes between 2/2 sashes in a cambered-arched opening, along with a gabled attic dormer that has casement windows. The interior has not been inspected. Historically, during the 18th century, Foregate Street was referred to as 'the mall,' and Tymbs' Worcester Guide from 1802 notes that the street was well paved and broad enough for a full circulation of air, making it a popular fashionable promenade. This building is part of a notable group that includes the Shire Hall, the Statue of Queen Victoria, the City Museum and Library, and several other numbered buildings on Foregate Street.