33 And 35, Friar Street

WORCESTER

SO8554NW FRIAR STREET 620-1/17/294 (East side) 05/04/71 Nos.33 AND 35 The Globe Inn (No.33) (Formerly Listed as: FRIAR STREET (East side) No.33 (The Globe Inn)) (Formerly Listed as: FRIAR STREET (East side) No.35)

GV II

Two shops. c1820-50 (at right) and c1880-90 (at left) with later additions and alterations including ground-floor facade at right c1960s. 3 storeys, 7 first-floor windows, with ranges to rear. Pinkish-red brick in Flemish bond, with hanging slates to stair turret at rear and stale roofs; tall brick off-centre left party-wall and off-centre right stacks; lead rainwaterhead. Windows: first- and second-floors have 6/6 sashes in plain reveals, with sills and flat arches of gauged brick. Ground floor: continuous shop front to centre and left has six pilaster strips with corbels. plinth, fielded panels below windows. Continuous frieze and cornice. At left are double doors with fielded panels and pierced upper panels; three plate-glass windows. 4-panel door with overlight, off-centre right. To right part: plank door with open overlight. Recessed shop front has plate glass window and glazed door. Rear retains 6/6, 8/8 and 3/6 sashes. Fallpipe and rainwaterhead to front at right. INTERIOR: right part has open newel staircase with rod-on-vase balusters and turned newel posts; further service staircase from ground to first floor has stick balusters; shaped architraves and sills; several marble C19 fireplaces and grates to first and second floors. 4-panel doors. HISTORICAL NOTE: formerly the Globe at right. Joselands, wine and spirit merchants at left, c1884. (Hughes, P. and Molyneux, N.: Worcester Streets: 1984-: 14).