26, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Worcester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 April 1971. A C18 House, shop. 1 related planning application.
26, High Street
- WRENN ID
- fossil-zinc-russet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Worcester
- Constituency
- Worcester MP: Tom Collins (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 April 1971
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- 26, High Street, WR1 2QU
- OS grid reference
- SO 850 547
- Coordinates
- 52.19088, -2.2202
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 26 High Street is a house that has been converted into a shop with an office, dating from around 1800, with later additions and alterations, including a shop front from the 1990s. The building is constructed of reddish-brown brick and features stuccoed sills and arches, along with stone copings and a concealed roof. It stands three storeys tall and has two first-floor windows. The first and second floors have 1/1 horned sash windows, all set in plain reveals, with sills and flat arches that include raised, coped keystones. The building is topped with a low coped parapet. The ground floor has a Victorian-style shop front with plate glass windows and a glazed door entrance to the left. The interior has not been inspected. This building is part of a notable group of 18th and 19th-century listed buildings on the High Street.
Local climate
26, High Street receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings