35 And 36, Broad Street

WORCESTER

SO8454NE BROAD STREET 620-1/16/117 (North side) 05/04/71 Nos.35 AND 36

GV II

Pair of houses, probably originally with shops, now café and restaurant with flats over. Numbered right to left, described left to right. Probably late C18, possibly with earlier origins and with later additions and alterations including C19 ground floor shop front at left and c1970s shop front at right. Dark pinkish-red brick in Flemish bond, painted at right, with dark-red gauged brick flat arches and stone sills; concealed roof, brick end and party-wall stacks with oversailing course and pots. Approximately U-plan with main range and service ranges to rear. 3 storeys, 4+1 first-floor windows. First and second floors have 6/6 sashes in plain reveals and with sills, under flat arches. Eaves band and modillion cornice; low coped parapet. Ground floor: at left a shop front with outer fluted Doric pilasters and 2/1 plate glass windows, canted in to central glazed entrance; fascia. Then a straight-headed carriage opening with timber lintel on plain pilasters. To right a brick and glazed shop front. Rear: to rear of arch are 2 Diocletian recesses with keystones, one to above the other with a further round-arched blind recess over. Ranges retain many 6/6 sashes, some flush, otherwise in plain reveals. Range at left has 6-flush-beaded-panel door with fanlight. To rear, right range one window has fluted lintel. INTERIOR: rear left range said to retain original staircase to full height with stick balusters and wreathed handrail. HISTORICAL NOTE: 'By the sixteenth century, Broad Street was second only to High Street in commercial importance. On the direct route through the city from the (Worcester) Bridge (qv), it contained the business premises of a number of important traders and at least two inns'. Several houses on Broad Street are known to have C17 and earlier origins (Nos 32, 40, 41 and 57 (qqv)). However the design of these two houses relates more closely to the adjacent terraces in Bridge Street, Nos 2-13 (consecutive) and Nos 14-22 (consecutive) (qqv).

All the listed buildings in Broad Street form a significant group: Nos 10, 10A, 11 with the Crown Inn, 12, 18, 19, 29, 32-36 (consecutive), 40, 41, 43-49 (consecutive), 51-63 (consecutive), 69, 70 and Church of All Saints (qqv). Nos 29, 32-36 (consecutive) and the Church form a further group with Nos 2-22 (consecutive) Bridge Street with No.2 Quay Street (qqv). Occupies an important site at the entry to one of the main Worcester thoroughfares. (Hughes P: No.57 Broad Street, Worcester: Report for Worcester City Council: 1991-).