65A, 65B AND 65C, HIGH STREET (See details for further address information)

WORCESTER

SO8454NE HIGH STREET 620-1/16/344 (West side) 22/05/54 Nos.65A, 65B AND 65C Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET (West side) Nos.65 AND 66 The Old Bank (No.66))

GV II

Includes: Nos.1 AND 1A BANK STREET. Bank, now shops and offices. Bank opened 1761, with later additions and alterations including c1980s ground floor shop fronts. Reddish-orange brick in Flemish bond with ashlar quoins, sills, architraves, keystones, cornice and copings; concealed roof, tall brick stacks with cornices, some with pots. EXTERIOR; 3 storeys, 2:1:2 first floor windows. Central breakforward with pediment in parapet. Horizontal rustication remains to ends of ground floor, continuous first-floor sill band. End quoins from first through second floors, rusticated pilasters to breakforward; modillion cornice. Coped parapet. 1/1 horned sashes in plain reveals throughout, those to outer bays are segmental arched and with keystones, those to second floor have moulded sills, that to first-floor centre bay has eared architrave, pulvinated frieze and dentil cornice, that to second-floor centre bay has eared architrave with raised centre. Parapet has sunk panels over outer windows. Ground floor: renewed rustication between shops, otherwise plate glass shop fronts, all renewed. Left return: 3 storeys, 12 first-floor windows. Quoins at right end. Ground floor has rusticated, drawn into voussoirs over windows; continuous first-floor sill band. Ground floor has round-arched windows, 1/1 horned sashes. First and second floors have 1/1 segmental-arched horned sashes with segmental arches and keystones, all in plain reveals and those to second floor with moulded sills; the fourth window has pedimented stuccoed surround. Modillion cornice and coped parapet. To left end a loading bay; off-centre left entrance a 6-raised-and-fielded-panel door with fanlight; further entrance, steps to glazed door with fanlight. INTERIOR: retains original joinery and plasterwork including moulded cornices. Nos 62 to 65 (consecutive) (qqv) form a group of late C18 properties.