15, New Street

WORCESTER

SO8554NW NEW STREET 620-1/17/452 (East side) 05/04/71 No.15

GV II

House, now shop. c1700 with later additions and alterations including mid C19 shop front. Reddish brick in Flemish bond with flat arches of red gauged brick; ashlar sills, keystones, cornice and copings; cement tile roof; timber shop front. PLAN: probably original lobby entry at centre of a left side passage. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 3 first-floor windows. First floor has 6/6 flush sashes; second floor has 2/2 flush sashes; all with sills, flat arches and central keystones, those to first floor with cornices. Crowning frieze and ovolo-moulded cornice; renewed low coped parapet. Shop front has end pilasters with unk panels and pilaster to right of left entrance a 4-panel door with overlight; 4-pane windows on aprons, off-centre right entrance, glazed double doors and overlight; continuous frieze and cornice with end brackets. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: New Street had changed its name from the medieval Glover Street by 1523. Hughes: 'New Street, in its C16 and C17 phase, was a street of dwelling-houses with workshops behind.' (Hughes P: Buildings and the Building Trade in Worcester 1540-1650: PhD thesis: 1990-: 149-151, 200).