Tudor Cottage

This is a timber-framed house, likely dating from around 1620 and originally built for Humphrey Tyrer. Later additions and alterations were made, including around the 1890s when the windows were replaced, and a 20th-century extension was added to the rear left side. The front facade and the left return feature brick nogging on a timber frame, while elsewhere the infill is plaster. The roof is covered with plain tiles, and there are two right-hand stacks, one renewed, with an 18th-century brick stack to the rear. The timber framing consists of close studding to the front and box frames to the left return.

The house has a gable end facing the street; it is one room wide and two rooms deep, with corner fireplaces and a staircase located between the rooms. It is two storeys high with an attic to the gable, and has two windows on the first floor. A sill beam is present, along with main end posts to the left and right, featuring scrolled brackets supporting a bressumer to the jetty at the first floor. The entrance is a studded door with six panels and a renewed overlight, while to the right is an inserted nine-pane casement window. The first floor has eight-pane casement windows. The jetty to the attic has an ovolo-moulded bressumer beam, also with scrolled brackets, and a six-pane casement window. The ends of two purlins project on either side.

Inside, a newel staircase rises to full height, with two rod-on-vase balusters per tread; the thicker turned balusters in the attic may be original, as is the shaped handrail. Exposed timber framing is visible on the walls throughout. The attic features exposed, massive chamfered purlins and a wall plate. On the first floor, three two-raised-and-fielded-panel doors are fitted with metal latches, and the closet door has a wooden lock. A cross beam is visible in the front room, and the ceiling has a simple ‘knuckle’ moulding in plaster. A wooden partition wall with a splat balustrade tops the landing-closet. A rear first-floor bedroom has a corner fireplace with a simple ovolo-moulded shelf, and cupboards on either side with panelled doors and butterfly and S-hinges. The ground floor features corner fireplaces with renewed surrounds; the chimney stack to the rear room is said to contain steps. Rough-hewn timber framing is also exposed.

Historical records indicate that the staircase and divided hearth stack were inserted before the 1666 Hearth Tax. The property forms a group with numbers 3-9 (odd) and 21 and 23 Fish Street. The timber-framed houses at numbers 9 and 21 frame the view of Worcester Cathedral from Fish Street.