46, Foregate Street and 16, Farrier Street

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WORCESTER FOREGATE STREET (West side) No. 46 FARRIER STREET No. 16

(Formerly listed as No 46, FOREGATE STREET previously listed under FRIAR STREET)

22/05/54

GV II House, now shop. Early/mid C18 with later additions and alterations including 1920s and 1970s ground-floor shop fronts and attic dormers. Brownish-red brick in Flemish bond with dark red gauged brick flat arches and ashlar sills and keystones, and ground floor; timber cornice and plain tile roof, right end brick stack (partly rebuilt) with oversailing course and pots.

Three storeys and attic, two first-floor windows. First and second floors have 6/6 horned flush sashes, with renewed sills to first floor and roll-moulded sills to second floor, all with flat arches and keystones with incised motif, keystones to second floor have cornices. Crowning modillion cornice. Ground-floor: entrance to left a part-glazed door in panelled reveals; renewed glazing to shop window. C20 flat-roofed attic dormers with casement windows.

INTERIOR: not inspected.

HISTORICAL NOTE: during the C18 Foregate Street was known as 'the mall' and Tymbs' Worcester Guide of 1802 notes, 'the Foregate Street itself, by being well paved and sufficiently broad to admit a full circulation of air seems to be generally resorted to as a fashionable promenade.'

The Shire Hall, Statue of Queen Victoria, City Museum and Library, and Nos 15, 19, 22, 23, 24, 28, Nos 33-46 (consecutive) and No.49 Foregate Street (qqv) form a significant group.

(Worcestershire Historical Society Occasional Papers: Whitehead D: Urban Renewal and Suburban Growth: The Shaping of Georgian Worcester: 1989: 12; Tymbs: Worcester Guide: Worcester: 1802: 60).