25, Friar Street

WORCESTER

SO8554NW FRIAR STREET 620-1/17/289 (East side) 22/05/54 No.25

GV II

House, now two shops with flats over. Believed to have mid C16 timber-frame origins with later additions and alterations including brick re-fronting in early/mid C18, mid C19 shop front; sub-divided into 2 shops and flats c1988. Painted brick under plain clay tile roof. South gable-end stack to rear roof slope. Painted stone sills and shop front. L-shaped plan, 'cat-slide' roof to rear right forming additional room on first- and second-floor. Staircases renewed and re-positioned c1988. Three storeys. Four first-floor windows, 6/6 sashes in near-flush frames under cambered brick arches with sills, similar openings to second-floor with paired side-hung casements. Projecting brick band over first-floor window heads. Shop-front has dentilled cornice with moulded console brackets forming terminations to ends and to central door opening; moulded pier caps with roundel incorporating floral motif; similar roundels to shop fascia. (Worcester Streets: Hughes P and Molyneux N: Friar Street: Worcester: 1984-: 10-11).