12, Broad Street

WORCESTER

SO8454NE BROAD STREET 620-1/16/111 (North side) 05/04/71 No.12

GV II

House, now shop. c1750 with later additions and alterations including c1980s ground floor shop front. Painted brick with stone keystones and sills; tile roof, pinkish-brown left end stack with oversailing course. 3 storeys with attic, 2 first-floor windows. To left end from first floor through full height a fluted pilaster. 6/6 sashes in near-flush frames throughout, all with flat arches and with fluted keystones and sills. Flat roofed attic dormer has casement windows. Ground floor has glazed shop front. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: 'By the C16, 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 in Broad Street are known to have C17 and earlier origins (Nos 32, 40, 41 and 57 (qqv)).