Bank House

WORCESTER

SO8455SE SHAW STREET 620-1/12/516 (North side) 05/04/71 Nos.6 AND 7 (Formerly Listed as: SHAW STREET Bank House)

GV II

Includes: Bank House FARRIER STREET. 2 houses, now offices. c1820 with later alterations. Pinkish-brown brick in Flemish bond with flat arches of red gauged brick and stone sills, stucco to ground floor, hipped slate roof and 4 brick stacks with oversailing courses, 3 with pots. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 3 first-floor windows. Ground floor has plinth and rustication surmounted by continuous cornice with triglyphs and metopes, cornice. First floor has central 6/6 sash and outer 8/8 sashes; second floor has central 3/6 sash and outer 4/8 sashes; all in plain reveals and with sills and with flat arches. Ground floor has 8/8 sash to right, reveals and sill. Pair of off-centre left entrances in shared pedimented tristyle Roman Doric porch with 3/4 engaged columns; 6-panel doors have upper panels raised and fielded and lower panels flush beaded, in similar reveals; overlights have margin lights, some etched glass. Left facade (to Farrier Street): 3 storeys, 4 first-floor windows. Ground floor has plinth, rustication and continuous cornice with triglyphs and metopes, cornice. First floor has 8/8 sashes; second floor has 4/8 sashes; ground floor has 6/6, 8/8 and tripartite 6/6 between 2/2 sashes; all in plain reveals and with sills, those to first and second floors have flat arches. Off-centre left entrance in pedimented Roman Doric porch with 3/4 engaged columns; a 4-panel door, the upper panels raised and fielded, lower panel with moulded surround in panelled reveals; overlight with margin-lights. Right return: ground floor has 8-pane French window with margin-lights, 4/8 and 8/8 sashes. First floor has two 8/8 sashes and 6/6 sash. Second floor has blind opening, 4/8 sash, 8/8 and 6/6 sashes; all in plain reveals and with flat brick arches. 2 round-arched staircase windows have 6/6 sashes with radial glazing bars to head and margin lights. INTERIOR: retains original plasterwork to some rooms, that to ground floor at left has ceiling frieze with acanthus scroll; -plan hallway to No.6 has cornice with shaped modillions and fleurons and archway. Openwell staircase at right has rod-on-vase balusters. Otherwise not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: buildings at the corner of Shaw Street and Foregate Street were redeveloped c1840 and it is possible that this belongs to the same phase of development. A similar design to Nos 3 and 4 Shaw Street (qv). Occupies a prominent corner site at junction of Shaw Street and Farrier Street. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Worcestershire: Harmondsworth: 1968-1985: 332).