Building Adjacent (North Side) To Security House

WORCESTER

SO8456SE BARBOURNE ROAD 620-1/6/32 (West side) 01/08/77 Building adjacent (north side) to Security House (Formerly Listed as: BARBOURNE ROAD (West side) Building adjacent to Spreckley (Witco) House)

GV II

Possibly a horse engine house. c1850, with probable earlier(c1830) origins, and later alterations and additions. Reddish-brown brick in Flemish bond with pitched slate roof. Cast-iron supporting columns. Cast-iron framed window. Approx. semi-circular in plan. Single-storey with South entrance. Each gable end has a ventilation eye; Barbourne Road (East) elevation has fixed multi-pane window, centre four panes pivot on horizontal axis; segmental arch over and flush brick sill. Roof ridge runs East-West. The wall-plate to the South elevation is supported on 2cast-iron columns and later brick infill. C20 vertically boarded folding doors (6 leaves) to centre; half height obscured glazing to each side, 3 fixed lights to right of door, 12 to left. INTERIOR: roof supported on 4 cast-iron columns and simple timber trusses. Blue-brick paved floor. HISTORICAL NOTE: probably part of former Spreckley's Brewery, Gwilliam thinks this building housed a horse-driven water-pump. Line of cut bricks at height of approx. 1.3 metres suggests building was erected on site boundary wall. Shown on1886 Ordnance Survey Map as being accessed separately. Remainder of brewery, with the exception of malting house (now converted to housing), demolished pre-1973. (Gwilliam HW: Old Worcester: 1977-: 58).