4 And 5, New Street

Nos. 4 and 5 on New Street in Worcester are mid-18th century houses that have been converted into two shops. The buildings have seen later additions and alterations, including mid-19th century shop fronts. They are constructed of stucco over brick, featuring ashlar bands, a doorcase, and a concealed roof.

The exterior consists of two storeys with five first-floor windows and a single-storey entrance bay on the right. The first floor has a continuous sill band and six-over-six flush sash windows, topped by a continuous cavetto-moulded band. On the ground floor, the shop front on the left has outer pilasters and acanthus console brackets supporting a cornice with acroteria. It features a panelled plinth and a three-pane window with chamfered mullions that are canted in. To the right, there is a part-glazed door with a lower panel and a blocked overlight, followed by a central entrance with a renewed door and fanlight set between pilasters adorned with fronds at the caps and an oval overcornice. Another shop front with pilasters, fascia, and cornice has renewed glazing, and there is a part-glazed renewed door with an overlight within panelled pilasters at the entrance bay, topped with a low coped parapet and a crowning coped parapet.

Inside No. 4, there is an axial beam and a moulded cornice that continues over the beam. The first floor is said to retain its original plasterwork and joinery.

Historically, New Street was known as Glover Street until at least 1523. During the 16th and 17th centuries, it was a street of dwelling houses with workshops located behind them, as noted by Hughes in his research on Worcester's buildings and the building trade from 1540 to 1650.