13, Pierpoint Street

WORCESTER

SO8455SE PIERPOINT STREET 620-1/12/477 (South side) 05/04/71 No.13

GV II

Purpose-built as City and County Library c1839, became School of Art c1876, now offices. Stucco over brick with hipped slate roof and brick stacks: tall right end stack with oversailing course and pots and tall rear stack. Central hallway plan with rear range off-set to right. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys on half basement, 4 first-floor windows (5 bays). Moulded plinth surmounted by Doric pilasters to ends and between bays, mutilated entablature and crowning coped parapet. Central breakforward has 2 raised pilasters to parapet. Ground floor has 1/1 horned sashes; first floor has 3/6 sashes, all in plain reveals and with sills. Steps to central entrance: double 8-panel, flush-beaded doors with overlight between pilasters with disc moulding, scrolled and fluted corbel brackets surmounted by frieze with 3 wreaths and shallow pediment. Above entrance a raised 'pedimented' panel on 3 feet. INTERIOR: noted as retaining original plasterwork and joinery including panelled shutters to windows. Nos 4-8 (consecutive) (qqv) and Nos 11, 12, 12A and 13 Pierpoint Street (qqv) form a group with Nos 4 and 6 Sansome Walk (qqv).