61, High Street

61 High Street is a corner terraced house, now used as offices, dating from around 1710 with later additions and alterations. It is built of red brick with painted stone dressings and features a stone shop front. The building has a tall, steeply-pitched plain clay tile roof that is hipped to the right, with a stack on the right-return at the front roof slope, which has a corbelled top. A moulded timber modillion eaves cornice is present, along with a lead hopper head and downpipe.

The original rectangular plan was likely single-depth and double-fronted, with an entrance from Broad Street. The house has three storeys, a basement, and an attic, with three first-floor windows. Stone detailing includes rusticated quoins, moulded sills, and inscribed capped keystones above the windows, with those on the first floor linked by a moulded band. The ground floor is faced with ashlar below a moulded sill band, featuring banded rustication above and an entablature with a modillion cornice. Engaged columns capped by moulded and carved console brackets support the head of a former corner entrance, which has been replaced by a late 20th-century canted bay window.

The first-floor windows are 3/6 sashes, the second-floor windows are 6/6 sashes, and the ground-floor windows are late 20th-century 8/8 sashes, all set in ear-flush frames under flat gauged brick arches. A pedimented dormer contains a pair of 3-pane side-hung casements. The return elevation to Broad Street is similar, featuring five first-floor windows and three dormers, which have 4-pane and 10-pane casements. New entrances were inserted around 1989 into each elevation in former window openings.

Inside, the probable original details have been obscured by late 20th-century ceilings. Historically, the stone-faced ground floor is believed to relate to the use of these premises and part of the adjoining No. 62 as a bank. Photographic evidence from around 1910 shows the premises as the 'London City & Midland Bank,' which later became the 'Midland Bank.'

61 High Street incorporates many features typical of the finest Georgian buildings in Worcester, and comparisons can be drawn with No. 2 The Cross and 6-9 Cornmarket.