19, Broad Street

WORCESTER

SO8454NE BROAD STREET 620-1/16/113 (North side) 05/04/71 No.19

GV II

House, now shop. c1770 with later alterations including shop front c1970s and possibly earlier origins. Dark red brick in Flemish bond with ashlar quoins, sill and keystones; concealed roof and end brick stacks. 3 storeys, 3 first-floor windows. Quoins to full height, renewed to ground floor, crowning frieze and moulded cornice with renewed coped parapet. 6/6 sashes to first and second floors in plain reveals and with sills, under flat arches of gauged brick and with keystones. Ground floor has glazed shop front and glazed entrance. INTERIOR: noted as retaining original joinery including panelled shutters to first-floor windows. Decorative plasterwork to second-floor, rear room ceiling. HISTORICAL NOTE: 'By the C16, 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 and 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-).