39 And 39A, St Nicholas Street

WORCESTER

SO8555SW ST NICHOLAS STREET 620-1/13/589 (North side) 18/08/99 Nos.39 & 39A (Formerly Listed as: ST NICHOLAS STREET (North side) No.39)

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House, now club. c1736-99 with later additions and alterations including those c1970s. Pinkish-brown brick in Flemish bond with dark red brick arches to windows, ashlar sills, keystones and cornice; renewed hipped cement tile roof and 2 brick stacks with pots to rear (west). Main facade to right return: 3 storeys, 5 first-floor windows. First floor has 6/6 sashes, second floor has 3/3 sashes, all in plain reveals and with sills and flat arches of gauged brick and with fluted keystones. Crowning frieze, ovolo-moulded cornice and low, coped parapet. Ground loor obscured by wall. Left return (to street): 1 first-floor window. Ground and first floors have 6/6 sashes; second floor has 3/3 sash; all in plain reveals and with sills, flat arches of gauged brick and fluted keystones. Inserted entrance to left, 3 steps to 6-panel door. Frieze and cornice continue from front facade. To rear are modillion eaves. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: on the site of Trinity Gate, a small postern gate in the city wall. One of several C18 buildings in Worcester with similar keystones.