Tudor Cottage

WORCESTER

SO8454NE FISH STREET 620-1/16/235 (South side) 22/05/54 No.21 Tudor Cottage (Formerly Listed as: FISH STREET No.21)

GV II

House. c1620 for Humphrey Tyrer with later additions and alterations including those c1890s when the house was refenestrated and with C20 range at rear left. Timber frame with brick nogging at ground floor to front facade and to left return, otherwise plaster infill and plain tile roof; 2 right stacks, one renewed, that to rear in C18 brick. Timber framing: close studding to front and box frames to left return. PLAN: gable end to street; One room wide, 2 rooms deep with corner fireplaces and staircase between. 2 storeys, with attic to gable, 2 first-floor windows. Sill beam, main end posts to left and right with scrolled brackets supporting bressumer to jetty at first floor. Entrance to left a 6-long-panel studded door and renewed overlight; to right an inserted 9-pane casement window. First floor has 8-pane casement windows. Jetty to attic has ovolo-moulded bressumer beam on scrolled brackets; 6-pane casement window to attic. Ends of two purlins project, one to each side. INTERIOR: open newel staircase to full height has 2 rod-on-vase balusters per tread, those balusters to attic are thicker turned rods and may be original; shaped handrail. Exposed timber-framing to walls throughout. Attic has exposed, massive chamfered purlins and wall plate. First floor has three 2-raised-and-fielded-panel doors with metal latches, that to closet has wooden lock; cross beam to front room and ceiling with imple 'knuckle' moulding in plaster. Wooden partition wall with splat balustrade at top to landing closet. Rear first-floor bedroom has corner fireplace with simple ovolo-moulded shelf and cupboards to either side with panelled doors and butterfly- and S-hinges. Ground floor: corner fireplaces with renewed surrounds, chimney stack to rear room said to have steps within; exposed rough-hewn timber-framing. HISTORICAL NOTE: Hughes notes that the staircase and divided hearth stack were inserted before the 1666 Hearth tax. Nos 3-9 (odd), and Nos 21 and 23, Fish Street (qqv) form a group. The timber-framed houses, Nos 9 and 21, frame the view of Worcester Cathedral (qv) from Fish Street. (Hughes, P.M.: Worcester: Buildings and the Building Trade, 1540-1650: Birmingham University PhD: 1990-: 167).