2 And 3, St Swithin'S Street

WORCESTER

SO8554NW ST SWITHIN'S STREET 620-1/17/592 (South side) 08/03/74 Nos.2 AND 3

GV II

2 terraced houses, now shops. Numbered right to left, described left to right. Mid C18 with later additions and alterations including late C19 shop front at right and late C20 shop front at left. Reddish-brown brick in Flemish bond (painted to first floor), stuccoed sills, plain tile roof with party-wall stack. 4 storeys, 4 first-floor windows. First floor has two 2/2 sashes and two 1/1 horned sashes; second floor has 6/6 sashes; third floor has 3/3 sashes; all flush and with flat arches of gauged rick, sills. Ground floor: at left a plate-glass shop front with central glazed door and fluted end pilasters, continuous fascia; at right a glazed brick plinth, basket- and round-arched windows with foliate decoration to the spandrels, canted in to part-glaze door with lower raised-and-fielded-panels, overlight. Tall coped parapet. INTERIORS: not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: St Swithin's Street was originally known as Goose Lane. Nos 2, 3, 6 and 7 St Swithin's Street form a group with Church of St Swithun, Church Street (qqv).