21 And 23, Friar Street

WORCESTER

SO8554NW FRIAR STREET 620-1/17/286 (East side) 05/04/71 Nos.21 AND 23

GV II

Originally 2 houses and shops with row of cottages at rear, now 2 shops. 1739, possibly with C16 origins at south part and with later additions and alterations including mid C19 ground-floor shop fronts. Stucco over brick, with timber-frame and brick nogging to passage; renewed plain tile roof and brick right end stack, truncated; timber shop fronts. 2 storeys with attics, 4 first-floor windows (2:2). First floor has 6/6 sashes in near-flush frames and with sills. Modillion eaves and. 3 attic dormers, 2 to left have casement windows and are gabled, otherwise flat-roofed and with 3/6 sash. Ground floor has shop fronts with pilaster strips, frieze and, to right, cornice; glazed windows, that to left has 2 mullions, that to right has cylindrical mullion, on apron; entrances at right and left are part-glaze doors, that at right is recessed. Between shops a passageway giving access to former cottages at rear. Passageway has rectangular panels of timber framing. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: surveys made by the City of Worcester (who owned the site) indicate that No.21 and the row of cottages at the rear were 'new built in 1739'. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner: N: Worcestershire: Harmondsworth: 1968-1985: 328; Hughes P and Molyneux N: Friar Street: 1984-: 10-11).