49 And 50, New Street

WORCESTER

SO8554NW NEW STREET 620-1/17/460 (West side) 08/03/74 Nos.49 AND 50

GV II

2 house, now shops and offices. Numbered right to left, described left to right. Early C18 with later additions and alterations including mid C19 shop front. Pinkish-brown brick in Flemish bond with flat arches of dark red gauged brick, stone copings and sills; renewed plain tile roof and end brick stacks with oversailing courses and pots; timber framing to internal walls. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 3 first-floor windows. First floor has 6/6 flush sashes; second floor has outer 3/6 flush sashes, to centre a blind opening painted to resemble 3/6 sash; all with flat arches. Crowning low coped parapet. Ground floor has continuous shop front: end entrances, that to right a 4-panel part-glazed door with lower flush panels, 2 entrances to left have lower flush panels and upper glazing; central glazed windows with glazing bars and panelled aprons, pilasters between windows and to ends, frieze and dentil cornice. INTERIOR: both houses retain closed-string dogleg staircases with turned bulbous bulb-on-onion balusters and moulded handrails; both retain exposed purlins; party-wall has rectangular framing. House to right (No.49) retains some 2-panel doors. HISTORICAL NOTE: New Street had changed its name from the medieval Glover Street by 1523. Hughes: 'New Street, in its C16 and C17 phase, was a street of dwelling-houses with workshops behind.' (Hughes P: Buildings and the Building Trade in Worcester 1540-1650: PhD thesis: 1990-: 200).