37, Foregate Street is a Grade II listed building in the Worcester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 May 1954. House, shop, office.
37, Foregate Street
- WRENN ID
- long-casement-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Worcester
- Constituency
- Worcester MP: Tom Collins (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 May 1954
- Type
- House, shop, office
- OS grid reference
- SO 848 553
- Coordinates
- 52.19639, -2.22294
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
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.
Local climate
37, Foregate 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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