6, Mealcheapen Street is a Grade II listed building in the Worcester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 April 1971. House, shop.
6, Mealcheapen Street
- WRENN ID
- cold-loggia-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Worcester
- Constituency
- Worcester MP: Tom Collins (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 April 1971
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- 6, Mealcheapen Street, WR1 2DH
- OS grid reference
- SO 851 549
- Coordinates
- 52.19257, -2.21931
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 6 Mealcheapen Street is a house that has been converted into a shop with an office above. It was built in 1767 for William Stokes and has undergone later additions and alterations, including a ground-floor shop front added around the 1980s. The building is constructed from purplish-red brick in Flemish bond, featuring rubbed red brick flat arches along with stone sills and keystones. It has a timber cornice and a plain tile roof with a brick stack at the left end.
The exterior consists of three storeys plus an attic, with three first-floor windows. The first and second floors have near-flush-frame 6/6 sash windows, which are set with sills and flat arches made of rubbed brick with keystones. The building is topped with a crowning cornice. The attic features a dormer with a hipped roof and a casement window. The ground floor showcases a glazed shop front with a glazed door, and the fascia is supported by outer corbel brackets on panelled pilasters, topped with an ovolo-moulded cornice.
The interior has not been inspected. Historically, a fire in 1767 destroyed a 17th-century house that previously stood on this site, after which it was rebuilt for William Stokes and let to Charles West Roberts. Mealcheapen Street thrived particularly in the 16th and early 17th centuries, primarily as a retail area. Its proximity to the Cornmarket contributed to its prosperity, leading to the establishment of several large inns. The listed buildings in Mealcheapen Street are part of a group that includes those in Cornmarket and the Church of St Swithun on Church Street.
Local climate
6, Mealcheapen 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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