35, Foregate Street

WORCESTER

SO8455SE FRIAR STREET 620-1/12/254 (West side) 05/04/71 No.35

GV II

House, now wine bar. Mid C18 with later additions and alterations including those to ground-floor of mid C20. Stucco over brick with concealed roof and brick left ridge and right end stacks with oversailing courses and pots. 3 storeys, 4 first-floor windows. 6/6 sashes to first and second floors in near-flush frames and with sills. Dentil cornice and coped parapet. Ground floor as end and off-centre Doric pilasters, 3 pairs of part-glazed doors with overlights and continuous entablature. INTERIOR: upper floor not seen, otherwise remodelled mid C20. 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 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).