65A, 65B AND 65C, HIGH STREET (See details for further address information) is a Grade II listed building in the Worcester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 May 1954. Bank, shop, offices.
65A, 65B AND 65C, HIGH STREET (See details for further address information)
- WRENN ID
- spare-oriel-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Worcester
- Constituency
- Worcester MP: Tom Collins (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 May 1954
- Type
- Bank, shop, offices
- OS grid reference
- SO 849 549
- Coordinates
- 52.19257, -2.22128
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building, comprising numbers 65A, 65B, and 65C High Street, and incorporating numbers 1 and 1A Bank Street, began as a bank opened in 1761, and has undergone subsequent additions and alterations, including 1980s shop fronts to the ground floor. It is constructed of reddish-orange brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with ashlar detailing on the quoins, sills, architraves, keystones, cornice, and copings. The roof is concealed by a parapet, and tall brick stacks with cornices, some topped with pots, are visible.
The building is three storeys high with a 2:1:2 window arrangement on the first floor. A central breakforward is marked by a pediment in the parapet. Horizontal rustication remains visible on the ends of the ground floor, and a continuous sill band runs along the first floor. The quoins extend from the first to the second floors, while rusticated pilasters are present on the breakforward. A modillion cornice tops the building. The windows are predominantly hornless sash windows, with segmental arches and keystones to the outer bays on the ground floor. The second-floor windows have moulded sills, and the centre bay's first-floor window has an eared architrave, a pulvinated frieze, and a dentil cornice. The second-floor centre bay window features a similarly detailed eared architrave with a raised centre. The parapet incorporates sunk panels above the outer windows. The ground floor has been altered with renewed rustication between shops, and features plate glass shop fronts.
The return elevation, to the left, is three storeys high with twelve first-floor windows, marked by quoins at the right end. The ground floor features rusticated detailing drawn into voussoirs above the windows as well as a continuous first-floor sill band. Round-arched windows with hornless sashes are present on the ground floor, while the first and second floors have segmental-arched, hornless sash windows with keystones. One window has a pedimented stuccoed surround. A modillion cornice and coped parapet complete this return elevation. A loading bay is visible at the left end, and an off-centre left entrance features a six-raised-and-fielded-panel door with a fanlight. A further entrance is provided via steps leading to a glazed door with fanlight.
The interior retains original joinery and plasterwork, including moulded cornices. Numbers 62 to 65 (consecutive) form a group of late 18th-century properties.
Local climate
65A, 65B AND 65C, HIGH STREET (See details for further address information) 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.
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