6-9, Cornmarket

WORCESTER

SO8554NW CORNMARKET 620-1/17/201 (East side) 22/05/54 Nos.6-9 (Consecutive) (Formerly Listed as: CORNMARKET Nos.6 AND 7) (Formerly Listed as: CORNMARKET Nos.8 AND 9)

GV II

4 houses, now shop. Numbered right to left, described left to right. C16 origins with later additions and alterations including frontage c1735 to right part and early C20 ground-floor shop front and probable reproduction of front facade to left part. Pinkish-red brick to left part with pinkish-brown brick to right part, all in Flemish bond; stucco keystones, aprons and pilasters and flat arches of red gauged brick; plain tile roof with tall brick stack to right with oversailing course and pots. Range to left of 3 storeys, 7 first-floor windows and range to right of 2 storeys, 4 first-floor windows. Left range: end pilasters through first and second floors with horizontal rustication; first and second floors have 6/6 flush sashes with flat arches and central keystones with cornices and moulded sills (roll and 2 steps), to second-floor windows are fluted, segmental aprons. Crowning moulded cornice and coped parapet. Right range: first floor has 6/6 flush sashes with cambered-arched heads and under cambered arches. Ground floor has continuous shop frontage: end pilasters and between windows have festoons; frieze and cornice; plate-glass windows, frieze with glazing bars; canted in towards off-centre right entrance with replacement glass door. Further entrance to passage at right a plank door. INTERIOR: to left part a curved narrow-openwell staircase has stick balusters and wreathed handrail; remains of a timber post and wall plate; chamfered beams with ogee stop. Right part retains timber-framing: 4 posts and square panels of timber-framing with wattle and daub to transverse passage at ground floor. First floor has jowled post and a second exposed post. Exposed beams. Roof timbers to right part said to remain. HISTORICAL NOTE: this was a house until the early C20; it has been a furniture store since then. The E side of this property adjoins one length of the C14 city wall, City Walls Road (qv item 714). (The Buildings of England: Pevsner: N: Worcestershire: Harmondsworth: 1968-1985: 329).