56, Broad Street

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WORCESTER CHAPEL WALK No.17 and 18

(Formerly listed as No 56, BROAD STREET, previously listed as BROAD STREET (south side) No.56 Arcadia Public House)

05/04/71

GV II Probably house and shop, now shop with offices over. c1750 possibly with earlier origins and with later additions and alterations including ground floor shop front c1980s. Pinkish-red brick in Flemish bond with stone keystones, sills and cornice; plain tile roof and left end brick stack with pot. Three storeys with attic, two first floor windows. First and second floors have six/six sashes in near-flush frames with flat arches of gauged brick and raised keystones with incised motif and sills. Crowning frieze and moulded cornice. Gabled attic roof dormer has three/three sash. Shop front in Victorian style has plate-glass windows with cylindrical mullions and apron; entrance at left a renewed six-panel door with overlight.

INTERIOR: ground floor renewed, otherwise not inspected.

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)). All the listed buildings in Broad Street form a significant group: Nos 10, 10A, 11 and 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).

Hughes P: No.57 Broad Street, Worcester: Report for Worcester City Council: 1991.