54, Broad Street

WORCESTER

SO8454NE BROAD STREET 620-1/16/127 (South side) 05/04/71 No.54

GV II

Probably house and shop, now shop and offices over. Mid C18, possibly with earlier origins and with later additions and alterations including ground-floor shop front c1980s. Reddish-orange brick in Flemish bond with flat arches of rubbed red brick, painted ashlar quoins, sills, keystones and cornices; plain tile roof with tall brick stack at left with oversailing course and pots. 3 storeys with attic, 3 first-floor windows. First floor has 2/1 sashes and second floor has 2/2 sashes, all in near-flush frames and with shaped sills, flat arches and fluted keystones with cornices. Quoins from first-floor to full height, replaced to ground floor. Ground floor has plate glass shop front and glazed door. Moulded cornice, coped parapet. Attic dormer has casement window and hipped roof. INTERIOR: ground floor renewed; original joinery includes raised-and-fielded-panel shutters to first floor, otherwise not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: 'By the sixteenth century, Broad Street was second only to High Street in commercial importance. On the direct route through the city from the (Worcester) Bridge (qv), it contained the business premises of a number of important traders and at least two inns'. Several houses in Broad Street are known to have C17 and earlier origins (Nos 32, 40, 41 and 57 (qqv)).

All the listed buildings in Broad Street form a significant group: Nos 10, 10A, 11 and the Crown Inn, 12, 18, 19, 29, 32-36 (consecutive), 40, 41, 43-49 (consecutive), 51-63 (consecutive), 69, 70 and Church of All Saints, (qqv). (Hughes P: No.57 Broad Street, Worcester: Report for Worcester City Council: 1991-).