43, Friar Street

WORCESTER

SO8554NW FRIAR STREET 620-1/17/299 (East side) 22/05/54 No.43

GV II

Formerly known as: No.9 SIDBURY. House, now shop. Dated 1642 on plaque, with stuccoing to front facade and re-roofing c1820-30. For Richard Hodgkins, tallow chandler. Timber frame with painted stucco to front facade, brick to rear and with slate roof. Two and a half storeys with cellar, 2 bays. 2 bays deep. Jettied first floor and upper stage; bressumer beams have ovolo, hollow and ovolo moulding, the upper beam is on corbels. The upper storey has small box frames. Bulge to right at first floor indicates the position of a main post. First floor has long, 8-light mullion and transom window with chamfered mullions and transoms and sill on corbels. Date plaque to front has carved dragons. Entrance a plank door to left. Shop front has two -pane windows on plinths, canted in to central glazed shop entrance. INTERIOR: ground floor wall to left has exposed square panels of timber framing, to right an exposed panel of wattle and daub; chamfered spine beam and cross beam. Wide floorboards. First floor has exposed square panels of timber framing; cross beam on jowled post at rear; fireplace at right with chamfered bressumer; 2-fielded-panel door and plank door to attic. HISTORICAL NOTE: the inventory of Richard Hodgkins, tallow chandler, lists the following rooms: 'forestreete chamber, studdy, chamber over the kitchen, toploft, kitchen, buttery, sellar, washhouse, workhouse. Value ,135. (Hughes, P.M.: Worcester. Buildings and the Building Trade 1540-1650. PhD: Birmingham University: 1990-: 442-43).