2, Edgar Street is a Grade II listed building in the Worcester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 May 1954. House, shop.
2, Edgar Street
- WRENN ID
- ragged-basalt-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Worcester
- Constituency
- Worcester MP: Tom Collins (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 May 1954
- Type
- House, shop
- OS grid reference
- SO 851 544
- Coordinates
- 52.18798, -2.21922
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 2 Edgar Street is a house that has been converted into a shop, dating from around 1750, with later additions and alterations. These include a shop front and attic dormers likely added between 1836 and 1899, and rebuilding of the right gable end between 1950 and 1970. The building is constructed of dark red brick in Flemish bond and has a plain tile roof. It features a renewed brick stack on the left end with an oversailing course and pots, an off-centre truncated brick stack on the right, and a tall brick stack at the rear right, also with an oversailing course and pots.
The structure has two storeys plus attics and four first-floor windows, with an outshut at the rear. The first floor displays alternating tripartite windows, which consist of 6/6 sashes between 2/2 sashes, alongside blind openings. The ground floor includes another tripartite window on the left, featuring a 3/3 sash between a 1/1 sash. All windows are set under flat arches made of gauged brick.
On the ground floor, there is an off-centre right plate-glass shop window flanked by pilaster strips, topped with a frieze and a shaped cornice supported by corbel brackets. The off-centre left entrance consists of a four-panel door with glazed upper panels and an overlight, all within a pilastered surround, frieze, and moulded cornice on corbel brackets. There is an additional entrance on the right, which is a four-flush-beaded-panel door with a timber lintel. The eaves feature a shaped modillion band, and there are two attic roof dormers with casement windows that have transom bars and timbering to the gables. The right gable end is adorned with decorative bargeboards.
The interior has not been inspected. No. 2 Edgar Street is part of a significant group of buildings, including Nos 2-16 Edgar Street and Nos 28-34 Sidbury, as well as No. 12 College Precincts, Tower House at No. 1 Severn Street, and Edgar Tower on College Green. Edgar Street is recognized as a fine example of a Georgian street and is an important part of the setting for the Cathedral.
Local climate
2, Edgar 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.
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- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2000
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