79 and 80, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Worcester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 March 1974. A C19 House. 4 related planning applications.
79 and 80, High Street
- WRENN ID
- iron-paling-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Worcester
- Constituency
- Worcester MP: Tom Collins (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 March 1974
- Type
- House
- Address
- 79 and 80, High Street, WR1 2ET
- OS grid reference
- SO 849 548
- Coordinates
- 52.19187, -2.221
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
79 and 80 High Street are two houses that have been converted into shops. They were likely built in the early 19th century and have undergone some alterations, including changes to the ground floor around the 1980s. The buildings are constructed of orange-red brick in Flemish bond, featuring flat arches made of gauged brick, with ashlar sills, a sill band, a frieze, a cornice, and copings. The parapet is made of stucco, and the roof is covered with plain tiles. The left end and party-wall tacks are made of brick, with oversailing courses and pots.
The buildings stand three storeys tall and have two first-floor windows. The first and second floors feature 8/8 sash windows, all set in plain reveals with flat arches. The first floor has a continuous sill band, while the other sills are separate. There is a frieze and an ovolo-moulded cornice, and a low, coped parapet crowns the structure.
Inside, the ground floor has been gutted, but both properties still have open-well winder staircases with stick balusters on the upper floors. The right-hand building, No. 79, retains a moulded plaster cornice in the front first-floor room.
Local climate
79 and 80, High Street receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2024
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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