97a, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Worcester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 April 1971. House, shop. 3 related planning applications.
97a, High Street
- WRENN ID
- frozen-pavement-equinox
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Worcester
- Constituency
- Worcester MP: Tom Collins (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 April 1971
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- 97a, High Street, WR1 2HW
- OS grid reference
- SO 850 546
- Coordinates
- 52.19026, -2.22048
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building, located at 97A High Street in Worcester, is a house that has been converted into a shop with offices above. It dates from the mid-18th century and has undergone later additions and alterations, including a shop front added around the 1970s. The facade is made of painted brick with stone sills, and it features a plain tile roof. The building stands three storeys high and has three first-floor windows. The first floor has 6/1 flush sash windows, while the second floor has 3/3 flush sash windows, all of which are topped with flat arches made of rubbed brick and coped raised keystones. The roof is hipped at the right side. The ground floor includes a plate glass window and a glazed entrance. The interior has not been inspected. The building shares a roof with No. 98 and occupies a corner site with Fish Street. It is part of a group of listed buildings on the High Street that enhance the view of the Cathedral Church of Christ and St Mary.
Local climate
97a, High Street receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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