53 And 54, The Tything

WORCESTER

SO8455SE THE TYTHING 620-1/12/645 (West side) 08/03/74 Nos.53 AND 54

GV II

Pair of houses, now shops with offices over. Numbered right to left, described left to right. C18 refronting of earlier property, with later additions and alterations including shop fronts c1836-99 and renovations c1980s at right. Brick, painted, with plain tile roofs; brownish-red brick rear party-wall stack. 2 storeys with attics, 2 + 1 first-floor windows. Crowning modillion cornice. First floor has two 1/1 flush sashes with sills and in cambered arched surrounds; at right a replacement multi-pane tripartite window with wide cambered arch over. Attics: skylight at left and gabled roof dormer at right with casement window. Ground floor has glazed shop fronts with slender mullions on aprons; at left canted in to off-centre left entrance a renewed glazed door, fascia and cornice, black and white tiling in enry; at right the entrance s to left: part-glazed double doors, fascia on corbel brackets. INTERIOR: not inspected. Nos 51 to 54 (consecutive) and Nos 57 and 58 form a group with No.1 and Nos 4 to 7 (consecutive) The Tything (qqv); the group forms a visual approach to listed buildings in Foregate Street (qqv).