37, Foregate Street

No. 37 Foregate Street is a house that has been converted into a shop and offices. It was built around 1730, with later additions and alterations, including a shop front from the 1930s. The building is constructed of reddish-orange brick in Flemish bond, featuring stone sills, keystones, and a cornice. The ground floor is finished in stucco, and it has a plain tile roof with reddish-orange brick stacks that have oversailing courses and pots. The structure is three storeys high, plus an attic, and has three first-floor windows.

The first and second floors are adorned with 1/1 sash windows set in near-flush frames, featuring flat arches made of gauged brick and keystones. The first-floor windows have fluted keystones and cornices, while the second-floor windows display floral motifs and moulded sills. At the top, there is a wide pediment with acanthus modillions and a central oculus, with a crowning coped parapet and raised gable ends. The ground floor has a shaped plinth, with the entrance on the left consisting of a panelled door set within a Doric porch that includes triglyphs and metopes. To the right, there is a window with a bronze frame and an acanthus motif, along with a frieze and cornice above the ground floor.

Inside, the first and ground floors feature panelled rooms with marble fireplaces, panelled doors in moulded architraves, and a fine dogleg staircase at the rear. This staircase has slender turned balusters with nops, a large cross-section ramped handrail, and carved brackets on the open string, along with a curtail step.

Historically, during the 18th century, Foregate Street was referred to as "the mall." Tymbs' Worcester Guide from 1802 noted that Foregate Street was well paved and broad enough to allow for good air circulation, making it a popular fashionable promenade. This building is an unusually well-preserved example of an early Georgian townhouse interior.

No. 37 Foregate Street is part of a significant group that includes the Shire Hall, the Statue of Queen Victoria, the City Museum and Library, and several other consecutive numbers on Foregate Street.