33, 34 (ST JOHN'S HOUSE) AND 35, THE TYTHING

WORCESTER

SO8455NE THE TYTHING 620-1/8/634 (West side) 05/04/71 Nos.33, 34 AND 35 St. John's House (34)

GV II

3 houses, now shops and offices, part of terrace. 1776-79 with later additions and alterations including c1870 window surround to No.34 to centre. Red brick with stucco detailing. Parapetted roof with plain clay tiles to right-hand house, concrete tile and asbestos sheet to other houses. Party-wall stacks; that to left has oversailing detail and pots, right-hand stack has been lowered and capped. Timber doorcase. 6 (2:2:2) first-floor windows. Stucco detailing includes frieze, cornice and blocking course; sills; elliptical arched heads to all 6 windows of centre house, arches are panelled and rise from capped springer blocks and incorporate protruding capped keystones. 1/1 arch-headed sashes to these windows otherwise 6/6 sashes to first-floor; replacement side-hung casements to second-floor of left-hand house, 3/3 sashes to right-hand house. Flat gauged brick arches to windows of flanking houses, all windows in plain reveals. Ionic-style doorcase, open pediment with mutules to right of centre, 5-panel door, bottom pair flush-beaded, entre panel raised and fielded, glazed upper panels with semi-circular rched heads; fanlight with Gothic-style tracery. C20 shopfronts to left and right. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Cast-iron window boxes to 2 centre first-floor windows. HISTORICAL NOTE: Photographs from 1951 and 1955 show a balcony to the right-hand house accessed by French windows at first-floor level. There are signs of local rebuilding of the brickwork in this area. This building also had a matching doorcase to the centre house.