21, The Cross

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.