21, The Cross is a Grade II listed building in the Worcester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 May 1954. House, shop. 4 related planning applications.
21, The Cross
- WRENN ID
- distant-foundation-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Worcester
- Constituency
- Worcester MP: Tom Collins (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 May 1954
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- 21, The Cross, WR1 3PZ
- OS grid reference
- SO 849 550
- Coordinates
- 52.19361, -2.22153
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a house, now a shop and residential property, dating from around 1770. It has undergone later additions and alterations, including a shop front installed around the 1970s. The building is constructed of red brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with ashlar stone sills and lintels. It features a plain tile roof, with a hipped front and a brick stack with pots at the right end. The property is four storeys high and has three windows on the first floor. The first and second floors contain 6/6 flush sash windows, all with sills and chamfered lintels featuring raised keystones. The ground floor has a plate-glass shop front that is canted and incorporates a glazed entrance, with a fascia above. The ground floor interior was noted as gutted during inspection, with the remainder of the interior not inspected.
Numbers 20 and 21, The Cross, together with the Church of St Nicholas, Lloyds Bank, properties at Angel Street and Foregate, and the Little Venice Restaurant, form a significant group of listed buildings at this city centre crossroads. These buildings have group value and contribute to an important visual framework for the entrance to Worcester city centre.
Local climate
21, The Cross receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2014
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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