Restdale House

WORCESTER

SO8455SE FRIAR STREET 620-1/12/252 (West side) 22/05/54 No.33 Restdale House (Formerly Listed as: FRIAR STREET (West side) No.33)

GV II

House. Late C18 with later alterations. Pinkish-red brick in Flemish bond with stucco to ground floor, scored in imitation of ashlar; stone sills, bands, copings and architrave; plain tile roof and brick stacks to rear with pots. 3 storeys, 4 first-floor windows. First floor has 6/6 sashes in plain reveals and with continuous sill band; second floor has 6/6 sashes in near-flush frames with sills; all wit flat arches of gauged brick. Ground floor: chamfered plinth; central entrance, 3 roll-edged steps to 6-raised-and-fielded-panel door with overlight with radial glazing bars in doorcase with fluted composite pilasters, dentil entablature and hood. Ground floor has 2 tripartite windows with 6/6 between 2/2 sashes in plain reveals and with sills and flat, stuccoed arches. 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 significant 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).