57 And 58, The Tything

WORCESTER

SO8455SE THE TYTHING 620-1/12/646 (West side) 22/05/54 Nos.57 AND 58

GV II

Pair of houses, now shops with offices over. Numbered right to left, described left to right. Probably c1720 with later additions and alterations including first-floor windows and balcony Early C19 and ground-floor shop fronts mid C19. Reddish brick in Flemish bond with ashlar quoins, sills, keystones, frieze, cornice and copings; concealed roof with truncated left side and party-wall stacks; wrought- and cast-iron balcony; timber shop front. 4 storeys, 4 first-floor windows. Quoins from first floor to full height; plain frieze and moulded cornice; low coped parapet. First floor has tall 6/9 sashes in plain reveals and continuous balcony with embellished rods and upper and lower frieze with circle and star motif; second floor has 6/6 flush sashes with sills, third floor has 3/3 flush sashes with sills; all with flat arches of gauged brick and keystones. Ground floor has two similar shop fronts: plate-glass windows ith cylindrical mullions, on aprons canted into end entrances, renewed glazed doors; outer and pair of central panelled pilasters on plinths embellished with diamond motifs and 'caps', with continuous fascia and cornice. INTERIOR: not inspected. No.1 and Nos 4 to 7 (concecutive) form a group with Nos 51 to 54 (consecutive) and Nos 57 and 58 The Tything (qqv) and form part of the visual approach to listed buildings in Foregate Street (qqv). (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Worcestershire: Harmondsworth: 1968-1985: 333).