28, Foregate Street

WORCESTER

SO8455SE FRIAR STREET 620-1/12/250 (East side) 22/05/54 No.28

GV II

House, now offices. Late C18 with later alterations. Reddish-orange brick in Flemish bond with stone sills, cornice and doorcase; concealed roof with left end brick stack with oversailing course and pots; lead hopper and cast-iron boot-scraper. 3 storeys, 3 first-floor windows. Moulded plinth. 6/6 sashes throughout in plain reveals and with flat arches of gauged brick and sills. Entrance at right: 6-raised-and-fielded-panel door has fanlight with decorative petal glazing bars in doorcase with three-quarter-engaged Doric columns and open pediment with guttae. boot-scraper to left of entrance. Crowning frieze and moulded cornice; coped parapet. Rain-hopper to left and fall pipe. INTERIOR: noted as retaining original joinery and plasterwork. HISTORICAL NOTE: during the C18 Foregate Street was known as 'the mall' and Tymbs' Worcester Guide of 1802 notes, 'the Foregate Street itself, by being well paved and sufficiently broad to admit a full circulation of air seems to be generally resorted to as a fashionable promenade.' The Shire Hall, Statue of Queen Victoria, City Museum and Library, and Nos 15, 19, 22, 23, 24, 28, Nos 33-46 (consecutive) and No.49, Foregate Street (qqv) form a significant group. (Worcestershire Historical Society Occasional: Papers: Whitehead D: Urban Renewal and Suburban Growth: The Shaping of Georgian Worcester: 1989-: 12; Tymbs: Worcester Guide: Worcester: 1802-: 60).