Plough Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Worcester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 March 1974. Inn. 1 related planning application.
Plough Inn
- WRENN ID
- winter-garret-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Worcester
- Constituency
- Worcester MP: Tom Collins (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 March 1974
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- Plough Inn, 23, Fish Street, WR1 2HN
- OS grid reference
- SO 849 546
- Coordinates
- 52.19021, -2.22142
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Plough Inn is a house that has been converted into an inn, dating from the early to mid-18th century, with later additions and alterations, including 20th-century attic dormers. It features a stuccoed and whitewashed brick exterior with a plain tile roof and two stacks at the right end. The building has two storeys with attics and four first-floor windows, along with an extension at the rear.
At the entrance on the left, there is a step leading to a six-panel door, where the upper four panels are raised and fielded, while the lower panels are flush and beaded. Above the door is a fanlight, and the entrance is framed with plain eaves. The ground floor includes two four-over-one horned sash windows, with etched glass in the lower lights. There are remnants of a first-floor band. The first floor has four nine-over-nine sash windows set in near-flush frames with chamfered sills, as well as an eaves band and a modillion cornice. The box attic dormers contain casement windows.
On the right side, there is another entrance in the gable end, featuring a three-long-panel door, and a multi-pane window above it on the first floor. The rear of the building has two eight-over-eight sash windows and one four-over-four sash window.
Inside, the dog-leg staircase is notable for its two rod-on-vase balusters per tread, along with a shaped and wreathed handrail and carved tread ends. The front room showcases raised and fielded panelling, with panelled cupboard doors that have H-hinges on either side of the fireplace; the cupboard on the left is larger. The room also features a shaped cornice.
The Plough Inn is situated at the corner of Fish Street and Deansway, framing a view of the Cathedral.
Local climate
Plough Inn 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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