No 9 And Oddfellows Hall

WORCESTER

SO8554NW NEW STREET 620-1/17/449 (East side) 05/04/71 No.9 and Oddfellows Hall Formerly Listed as: NEW STREET (East side) No.9)

GV II

House now 2 shops and flat over, with range to rear of 2 houses, now club. Probably c1730-60 with later additions and alterations including link range and C19 shop front to left. Reddish-brown brick in Flemish bond with flat arches of red gauged brick, ashlar cornices and sills; double-pitch plain tile roof to front range with end brick stacks with cornices, slate roof to rear range, hipped at rear. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 5 first-floor windows with range to rear of 2 storeys, 3:2:3 first-floor windows. First floor has 6/6 flush sashes with flat arches. 3-course band over. Crowning frieze and modillion cornice. Ground floor: central entrance a 6-fielded-panel door in deep panelled reveals and with eared timber architrave, pulvinated frieze and pediment. Remains of C19 shop front includes pilaster strips to ends and fascia; renewed plate-glass windows to left and right, at right a part-glazed door with lower panels, at left a board door. Rear range in 2 stages of build: 2 left bays are blind with flat arches; first-floor has 6/6 round-arched staircase sash with Gothic glazing bars to head; then inserted casement window, 8/8 sash and three 6/6 sashes. Ground floor has 2 blind openings, then entrance a 6-panel door in panelled reveals with fanlight with Gothick glazing bars, doorcase has open pediment on corbel brackets; 6/6 sash then entrance a 6-panel door with 4 raised-and-fielded panels, upper 2 panels now glazed; then wide casement window and two 6/6 sashes; right end entrance a 4-panel door with overlight and sidelights. Windows mainly with cambered arches, those at left are in plain reveals, those at right are flush; sills. At left a crowning ashlar cornice; modillion eaves cornice to entre. Left stacks. Garden (rear) facade: 2 storeys, 3 first-floor windows. Mainly 6/6 sashes with flat arches of rubbed brick and keystones in plain reveals and with sills. INTERIOR: rear range altered probably c1800 and later but retaining original plasterwork and joinery including dogleg staircase to entrance hall with wreathed handrail, stick balusters and carved tread ends; further dogleg staircase to rear of main range has turned balusters; double doors in panelled reveals lead from entrance hall to front reception room (originally 2 rooms) with modillion cornice; panelled shutter boxes to windows. First floor retains 6-panel doors. Attic has exposed trenched purlins, principal rafters and collar beam. 2 cast-iron fireplaces. HISTORICAL NOTE: the rear range has been an Oddfellows Hall since 1923. New Street changed its name from the medieval Glover Street by 1523. Hughes: 'New Street, in its C16 and C17 phase, was a street of dwelling-houses with workshops behind.' (Hughes P: Buildings and the Building Trade in Worcester 1540-1650: PhD thesis: 1990-: 200).