104 AND 104A, HIGH STREET

WORCESTER

SO8554NW HIGH STREET 620-1/17/361 (West side) 19/08/99 Nos.104 AND 104A Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET No.104)

GV II

House, now shop and offices. C17 origins with later additions and alterations, including C18 front facade with further alterations c1870s and 1960s ground-floor shop front. Aesthetic Movement detailing. Pinkish-brown brick in Flemish bond with red sandstone sills and plain tile roof; timber frame with brick nogging to rear. 3 storeys, 3 first-floor windows. Ground floor has plate-glass shop front with glazed door to right and further entrance to left, a plank door. First and second floors have 8/2 sashes with sills and rubbed brick surrounds and gauged brick flat arches with ovolo-moulded and floral motif to keystone (all those to second floor are badly eroded); panelled 'aprons' above and below second-floor windows. Dentil cornice and low, coped parapet. To rear: square panels of timber framing in gable end, restored. INTERIOR: ground floor renewed, otherwise not inspected.