Former Corn Exchange and Attached Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Worcester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 April 1971. A C19 Commercial. 5 related planning applications.
Former Corn Exchange and Attached Railings
- WRENN ID
- cold-render-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Worcester
- Constituency
- Worcester MP: Tom Collins (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 April 1971
- Type
- Commercial
- Address
- Former Corn Exchange and Attached Railings, Angel Street
- OS grid reference
- SO 848 550
- Coordinates
- 52.19341, -2.22233
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
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.
Local climate
Former Corn Exchange and Attached Railings 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2020
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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