10, Cornmarket

WORCESTER

SO8554NW CORNMARKET 620-1/17/202 (East side) 08/3/74 No.10

GV II

House, now shop with offices over. c1760 with later additions and alterations including later additions and alterations including shop front of c1900 with late C20 attic to rear. Pinkish-red brick in Flemish bond with painted and stuccoed quoins and lintels with stone sills, cornice and copings; concealed roof. 3 storeys, 4 first-floor windows. Stucco details include quoins to ends through first and second floors; splayed and peaked lintels with sunk panels to first- and second-floor windows. 6/6 sashes in plain reveals and with sills, taller to first floor, the second window to both floors is blind. Moulded crowning cornice and coped parapet with end and entral pilasters. Ground floor: shop frontage has banded and panelled pilasters, the upper panels fluted, with ornate scrolled caps; off-centre left and right entrances, that to left has left a part-glazed door with overlight with round-arched glazing-bars; that to right a 5-panel door, the upper panels round-arched, and overlight, keystone to frieze. Replacement windows project in rectangular bays with canted overlights with similar round-arched glazing bars and keystones to frieze. Left return has ground-floor shop front, angled on plan: renewed plinth and glazing with end pilaster and pilasters to renewed, part-glazed door; frieze and cornice. Rear retains 8/8 sash. INTERIOR: retains original joinery and plasterwork including closed-string, dogleg staircase with rod-on-vase balusters from first floor, those to upper landing with square knops, and moulded handrail.