43, Foregate Street

This is a three-story house, now shops and offices, dating from approximately 1761. It was originally built for Dr. John Wall to his own designs, incorporating a late 17th-century wing of the former Green Dragon Inn. Later alterations include a mid-20th century shop front. The house is constructed of reddish-brown brick in Flemish bond with ashlar bands, architraves, and a cornice; the parapet and right end stack are stuccoed. The stack has an oversailing course and decorative pots.

The facade has five windows on the first floor. Horizontal bands and a crowning modillion cornice are prominent, along with a central pediment that projects forward, supported by large consoles below the lower angles, with finials at the apex and sides. A low parapet originally accommodated bases for urns. The first-floor windows are 6/6 sash windows with eared and shouldered architraves, sills on feet, and cornices, except for the central window which features a shouldered architrave with an apron and a blind balustrade, supported by console brackets with scroll detailing. The second-floor windows are 3/3 sashes in tooled architraves, with sills; the central window is eared and sits on feet. The ground floor has a central entrance with glazed double doors and an overlight, framed by two pillars ornamented with paterae, matching end pilasters, and a continuous entablature. The shop fronts to the left and right are similar, with plinths, glazed windows canted into entrances, part-glazed doors with overlights, and a frieze with margin-lights (now blind). The left return has a Diocletian window on the upper stage, while the rest is concealed.

The interior has been remodelled in the mid-20th century, with the upper floor remaining unseen.

Historically, Dr. John Wall acquired the Green Dragon Inn in 1761, retaining part of it and constructing the Georgian house on the Foregate Street frontage. Sir Charles Hastings, a physician associated with the Worcester Royal Infirmary, resided here from 1794 to 1866 and founded the British Medical Association in Worcester in 1832. In the 18th century, Foregate Street was known as "the mall," a fashionable promenade.

The building forms part of a significant group that includes the Shire Hall, Statue of Queen Victoria, City Museum and Library, and several other properties along Foregate Street.