7, Friar Street

WORCESTER

SO8554NW FRIAR STREET 620-1/17/281 (East side) 22/05/54 No.7 (Formerly Listed as: FRIAR STREET (East side) No.7 Thompson's Trust (Worcester Archaeological Society's Library))

GV II

House, now hair salon on both floors. c1660 with later additions and alterations including restoration of 1950's. Possibly for one Richard Smith. Timber-frame with rendered brick infill under a plain clay tile roof. No visible stacks. Plan: was simply two rooms on ground-floor, now one. Note there is no external wall to the south, the building taking its support from the Greyfriars (qv). TIMBER-FRAME: large square panels, each floor two panels high, jettied first-floor with heavily moulded bressumer beam. Console brackets to oriel windows. Roof gablet is weather-protection for projecting re-used beam to central truss. Symmetrical elevation, 2 storey, 2 first-floor windows with large gables over. Mullion and transom windows of 4-lights, leaded with rectangular quarries. Similar but shorter windows to the ground-floor. Central door of oak planks with chamfered cover strips. INTERIOR: timber-frame exposed during 1950's restoration, when C17 staircase was imported. (Worcester Streets: Hughes P and Molyneux N: Friar Street: Worcester: 1984-: 2-5).