46 And 47, Broad Street

WORCESTER

SO8454NE BROAD STREET 620-1/16/121 (South side) 22/5/54 Nos.46 AND 47

GV II

2 houses probably originally with shops, now shops with flats. Numbered right to left, described left to right. Probably c1750 with later additions and alterations including ground-floor shop front c1980s. Reddish-orange brick in Flemish bond with stone sills and keystones; stuccoed to ground floor at left; concealed roof and massive brick stack at left with oversailing pots. 4 storeys, 4 first-floor windows. First and second floors have 6/6 sashes, third floor has 3/3 sashes, all in flush frames and sith sills and flat arches of gauged brick with central keystones; keystones have incised motif to ground and third floors and flutes to second floor, those to first and second floors have cornices. Ground floor retains horizontal rustication at left, left entrance a part-glazed door with lower raised and flush panel in plain reveals and with tooled architrave. Plate glass windows with timber mullion and transom. Shop front to right has end pilasters and plate-glass window on plinth and with fascia. INTERIOR not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: 'By the sixteenth century, Broad Street was second only to High Street in commercial importance. On the direct route through the city from the (Worcester) Bridge (qv). It contained the business premises of a number of important traders and at least two inns'. Several houses in Broad Street are known to have C17 and earlier origins (Nos 32, 40, 41 and 57 (qqv)).

All the listed buildings in Broad Street form a significant group: Nos 10, 10A, 11 with the Crown Inn, 12, 18, 19, 29, 32-36 (consecutive), 40, 41, 43-49 (consecutive), 51-63 (consecutive), 69, 70, and Church of All Saints, (qqv). (Hughes P: No.57 Broad Street, Worcester: Report for Worcester City Council: 1991-).