9 And 11, Copenhagen Street

WORCESTER

SO8454NE COPENHAGEN STREET 620-1/16/198 (South side) 05/04/71 Nos.9 AND 11 (Formerly Listed as: COPENHAGEN STREET (South side) No.9) (Formerly Listed as: COPENHAGEN STREET No.11)

GV II

2 houses, now shop and offices. c1800 with probably earlier origins and later additions and alterations including c1970s shop front. Reddish-orange brick in Flemish bond with ashlar ground floor, frieze and cornice. 3 storeys, 4 + 3 first-floor windows. First and second floors have 2/2 horned sashes in plain reveals with sills and flat arches of gauged brick. Crowning frieze and moulded cornice, low coped parapet. Ground floor retains horizontal rustication to ends of c1850 shop front at left and to right, surmounted by continuous frieze and cornice. At left a glazed shop window. At right: plinth; left entrance, 6-panel double doors with cambered overlight and in tooled surround and with keystone, between pilasters. 2 windows are 1/1, cambered-arched, horned sashes with eared architraves and with sills on feet, in taller plain reveals. Left return has exposed timbering to gable end and raised letters: 'ARD'. INTERIOR: contains a fine cantilevered staircase with slender square balusters; top-lit by elliptical skylight with radial glazing bars. Moulded decorative plaster cornices to some rooms. One marble fire surround remains. Nos 7 to 11 (odd) (qqv) form a group. Note: No.9 listed 8/3/74.