69, Broad Street

WORCESTER

SO8454NE BROAD STREET 620-1/16/135 (South side) 16/07/99 No.69

GV II

House and shop. c1860's, possibly with earlier origins. MATERIALS: Red brick with stucco bands, concealed roof and tall left side stack with modillion frieze, timber shop front. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with attic and cellar, 3 first floor windows. First and second floors have plain horned sashes with continuous sill band to second floor and with chamfered jambs and double chamfered lintels incorporated into continuous stucco bands over windows, third floor has central 2-light window with columnar mullion, which interrupts eaves brackets and dentil cornice, and with gable over with oculus in polyfoil surround. Pilasters, console brackets, fascia and cornice to shop front are late C20, otherwise C19, windows have carved decoration to spandrels, window to right with slender mullion and windows to right and left with glazing curved on plan into off-centre left entrance glazed door with overlight, all with margin lights. INTERIOR: retains some joinery and plasterwork contemporary to facade including cornices and staircase on upper floors with turned balusters. Staircase leading from ground floor was installed c1960. A substantially complete surviving example of its type, with good group value and occupying a significant site near the junction of Broad Street, High Street and The Cross for which it helps form the vista.

All the listed buildings in Broad Street form a significant group: Nos 10, 10A, 11 and the Crown Inn, 12, 18, 19, 29, 32-36 (consecutive), 40, 41, 43-49 (consecutive), 51-63 (consecutive), 69, 70, and Church of All Saints (qqv). Nos 69 and 70 also form a group with Nos 31 and 32 The Cross and Nos 61-65 (consecutive) High Street (qqv).