95, High Street

WORCESTER

SO8554NW HIGH STREET 620-1/17/354 (West side) 19/07/73 No.95

GV II

House, part of terrace; now shop. Front c1870 to earlier property. Red brick with stone dressings and shopfront, slate roof with parapet. Stack to left end ridge with oversailing detail. Polished marble columns and cast-iron railings to shopfront. 3 storeys with attic and cellar. 4 first-floor windows. Stone detailing includes parapet coping, moulded eaves cornice with bracketted ends, sill band on corbel brackets to second-floor windows, stilted segmental arch moulded window heads on corbel brackets. Brick detailing includes scrolled arrisses to window reveals. 1/1 sashes throughout. Arcaded ground-floor of 5 stilted segmental arches supported on detached colonnettes with Corinthian capitals and high engaged pedestals; entablature has egg-and-dart moulding to lower edge of cornice and fascia, carved console brackets. 6-panel raised and fielded doors to centre and right, other openings have full-height glazing protected at low-level by ornate railings linking the pedestals. NTERIOR: late C19 plasterwork to ground-floor front; paved passage on right leads to early C19 pair of panelled and semi-circular arched doors. No other features visible, but boxing to beams and ceiling heights are indicative of possible timber frame. HISTORICAL NOTE: These premises were the wine cellars of siah Stallard and Sons' noted as being established here in 1808. The shop front is a particularly fine example of its period. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Worcestershire: Harmondsworth: 1968-1985: 330; Transactions of the Worcestershire Archaeological Society: Carver M O H (Editor): Medieval Worcester - An Archaeological Framework: Worcester: 1980-: 311; Worcester Daily Times: Worcester at Work: Worcester: 1903-: 23; Measom G: Official Illustrated Guide to the Great Western Railway: 1860-: 432-434).