2, North Parade

No. 2 North Parade is a former hop warehouse, now converted into flats, dating from around 1880 with later additions and alterations, including the conversion to flats between 1976 and 1997. The building is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond, featuring gault brick bands and window dressings, as well as ashlar voussoirs and returns in reddish-orange brick laid in English bond. It has a slate roof.

The exterior is four storeys tall with an attic above the gable and consists of three bays. There are pilaster strips at the ends and on either side of the central bay, with paired pilasters on the fourth storey. Continuous cornices are present at each floor, including a cyma moulded cornice at the ground floor, dentil cornices on the first and second floors, and modillion cornices on the third floor. The central bay features openings on all floors, except for the attic, which are part-glazed doors, and hinged platforms are retained. A hoist bracket in the attic is set within a glazed lunette with a round arch made of gault brick.

The ground floor has two large semi-circular windows with multi-pane glazing in the casements, round gauged brick arches with alternating ashlar voussoirs, and double chamfered sills. The first floor contains multi-pane casements, with one pair in each outer bay, featuring plain lintels, plain reveals, and shaped sills, while the tiles on the aprons display a foliate motif. The second floor has multi-pane, round-arched casement windows with alternating voussoirs in the gauged brick round arches. The third floor features 2-light multi-pane casement windows between single lights in each bay, with pilasters in between, visually supporting the attic lunette.

The interior has not been inspected. This building is an important feature of the streetscape, forming a group with Worcester Bridge and Bridge Street. It is noted as the most architecturally elaborate warehouse in Worcester, associated with the significant regional hop industry.