Giulio'S Restaurant

SO8554NW CHURCH STREET 620-1/17/156 (North side) 22/05/54 Giulio's Restaurant (Formerly Listed as: CHURCH STREET (North side) Old Grammar School)

GV II

School, now restaurant. 1735, with later alterations including conversion to restaurant c1990. Brownish-red, yellow and purple brick in English bond with plain tile roof. Single tall storey originally, 3 windows. Entrance to left a 6-panel door, the upper 4 panels raised-and-fielded, the lower panels flush beaded, divided leaded fanlight, all in tooled, round-arched surround and with round arch of gauged brick. Above a renewed hood, above which a tablet inscribed, 'This School was Founded and Endowed/ by Queen Elizabeth the Third Year of/ her Reign and Rebuilt in the Year/ 1735'. Round-arched windows with leaded lights (boarded to outside) with brick arches (3 to front, 2 to rear). Modillion eaves band. Central lightwell and timber turret has peaked roof and finial. INTERIOR: coved ceiling on cornice and with central moulded cornice to lightwell. HISTORICAL NOTE: a fragment of the original building. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner: N: Worcestershire: Harmondsworth: 1968-: 330).