Brown'S Restaurant

WORCESTER

SO8454NE SOUTH QUAY 620-1/16/541 (North East side) 05/04/71 No.24 Brown's Restaurant (Formerly Listed as: SOUTH QUAY No.24)

GV II

Includes: Brown's Restaurant QUAY STREET. Warehouse with house at rear, now restaurant. Warehouse of c1840 with late C18 house. Reddish-brown brick in Flemish bond with red and purple brick arches and sills and ashlar keystones, slate roof. Main range then range set back at right (forming rear of house which faces Quay Street). EXTERIOR: main range: 3 storeys, 2 first-floor windows. Central tall round-arched opening with arch of gauged brick on imposts and with fluted keystone with plaque over, now glazed. To either side of ground and first floors a casement window with segmental arch and keystone. Continuous panel over first floor then three 4/8 sashes with cambered arches. Moulded dentil eaves band. Range set back to right has 4 storeys, 2 first-floor windows. All small, square openings with cambered arches and with purple brick sills. Entrance at right a plank door with cambered arch. Low coped parapet. House at rear: 3 storeys, 3 first-floor windows. Ground and first floors have 6/6 sashes, all with fluted keystones. Second floor has 3/3 sashes with keystones. All in near-flush frames and with flat arches of gauged brick. Entrance at right: double 6-raised-and-fielded-panel doors with fanlight, imposts and keystone. Left end stack has oversailing course. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: This is one of a group of former warehouses, together with Gascoyne House and Bond House (qqv), which form a significant streetscape feature overlooking the River Severn; with Merchant House, Quay Street (qv), Worcester Bridge, Bridge Street (qv) and St Andrew's Church Tower, Deansway (qv) these buildings form part of the visual framework for Worcester Cathedral (qv) from the River.