10, New Street

WORCESTER

SO8554NW NEW STREET 620-1/17/450 (East side) 05/04/71 No.10

GV II

House, now shop. Probably late C16 with mid C19 refronting and C20 shop front. Timber frame with pinkish-red brick facade in Flemish bond, ashlar copings and lintels, range to rear in narrow, hand-made pinkish-red brick; plain tile roof. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 2 first-floor windows with ranges to rear. 2/2 sashes in plain reveals and with flat splayed arches, those to 2nd floor have renewed stone sills. Ground floor: at left a cambered-arched opening to Nash's Passage, then renewed shop front with panelled plinth, glazing and off-centre part-glazed door. Facade to Nash's Passage has exposed square panels of timber framing. INTERIOR: square panels of timber frame and jowled posts; exposed chamfered trenched purlins, collar beam. Remains of a framed internal wall. Chamfered beams with ogeed stops. Two stanchions, quatrefoil on section. HISTORICAL NOTE: New Street had changed its name from the medieval Glover Street by 1523. Hughes: 'New Street, in its C16 and C17 phase, was a street of dwelling-houses with workshops behind.' (Hughes P: Buildings and the Building Trade in Worcester 1540-1650: PhD thesis: 1990-: 200).