57, Sidbury

WORCESTER

SO8554SW SIDBURY 620-1/20/524 (North East side) 05/04/71 No.57

GV II

House or two houses, now café. c1500 with later additions and alterations including mid C19 shop front. Timber-framed with whitewashed brick facade and renewed plain tile roof; central brick stack. PLAN: 2 integral ranges, both gable end to the street, one and a half bays in length, immediately behind and parallel to the street another range. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 3 bays. End posts concealed to ground floor, and central post at first floor. First floor has 2 casement windows in near-flush frames. 2 gables have exposed collar and tie beams with close studding; exposed tier of clasped purlins; original barge boards with carved quatrefoils. Jetty bracket to left. Ground floor: shop front has end pilasters and continuous moulded cornice, plate glass windows with multi-pane overlights and chamfered mullions on panelled apron to right, replaced apron to left. Right entrance a plank door with further similar pilaster. Off-centre left shop entrance canted in to double, part-glazed doors and blind overlight. Further entrance to right gives access to passageway: plank door with end pilaster. Range to rear has exposed timber-framing to rear wall. INTERIOR: transverse beam to ground floor; further exposed beams and rafters may be later imports; said to have timber-framing to first floor. Side passage noted as having exposed timber framing. HISTORICAL NOTE: first known tenant probably Richard Walker, 1544. The property of John Chetle during C17 but not inhabited by him. Nos 57-69 (odd) Sidbury (qqv) from a group. (Hughes P: Buildings and the Building Trade in Worcester 1540-1650: PhD thesis: 1990-: 442).