Former Corn Exchange And Attached Railings

The building is a former corn exchange, now a shopping mall, dating from 1848, with later additions and alterations, including changes to the interior in the 1980s. It is located on Angel Street in Worcester. The construction is predominantly reddish-pink brick in Flemish bond, with gauged red brick arches and stuccoed columns and entablature. The roof is concealed, featuring a central glass skylight, and there are cast-iron railings.

The building is a single tall storey, arranged over five bays. It includes a plinth, giant Tuscan pilasters to the ends and outer two bays, and two pairs of Tuscan columns in antis to the centre. The outer bays have full-height recesses, with three plate-glass windows to the ground floor on one side, an opening with a renewed cast-iron gate on the other, and raised and fielded panels above. The upper stage has round-arched 1/1 sash windows with margin lights, all linked by a continuous impost band. A flight of renewed steps leads to the central entrance, which features 9-fielded-panel double doors, a panelled frieze, a lunette, a tooled arch, and a keystone. The building is topped by a crowning entablature and a balustrade with bulbous balusters, with a central panel bearing the raised letters "CORN EXCHANGE" between two plinths displaying sheaves of corn. A central roof turret is square in plan and has a pyramidal roof.

The interior has been largely renewed but retains a partly glazed roof supported by king-post trusses.

Spearhead railings, L-shaped for approximately 1.5 metres on either side of the entrance, are a subsidiary feature. The building is a significant 19th-century mercantile building occupying a prominent location near the junction of Angel Street and Angel Place, and it forms a good group with the Horn and Trumpet Public House, and numbers 23 and the Former Congregational Church on Angel Place.