11 And 12, New Street

WORCESTER

SO8554NW NEW STREET 620-1/17/451 (East side) 22/05/54 Nos.11 AND 12

GV II

House and Methodist Chapel, now 2 houses. Mid C18 with later additions and alterations including early C19 shop front and c1980s restorations. Reddish brick in Flemish bond with ashlar bands and plain tile roof, left end stack with oversailing course and pots. 3 storeys, 3 first-floor windows. First floor continuous sill band and second-floor band. First and second floors have 8/8 near-flush cambered-arched sashes under flat-headed cambered arches, dummy sashes to centre. Ground floor: at left a multi-pane bow window between reeded pilasters, frieze; two 6-panel doors with overlights in reeded surrounds. At right a renewed 8/8 sash with cambered arch. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: plaque to front records that John Wesley opened the first Methodist Chapel in Worcester in this building, 1772. 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-: 199-200; Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England: Nonconformist Chapels & Meeting Houses(Hfds., Worcs. & Warwicks.: 1986-: 259).