Farriers Arms Public House

WORCESTER

SO8454NE FISH STREET 620-1/16/234 (South side) 22/05/54 No.9 Farrier's Arms Public House

GV II

2 houses, now public house. Main range to right of C16 with upper storey added c1666-78; later additions and alterations including infill to rear of c1700; C19 fenestration; restorations, rebuilding to left gable end and rear left extension of late C20; house to left adjacent to no. 7(qv) is late C18. Main range: timber frame with plaster infill and brick to rear; pinkish-brown brick rear stack at right with pot. Range to left: brick, rendered to ground floor, colourwashed. Plain tile roofs. Main range: L-plan. 3 storeys, jettied at first floor, 2 first-floor windows. Timber-framing: bressumer beam to jetty over ground floor; first floor has remains of close studding; second floor has box frames; right return has square panels of framing, and diagonal brace at first floor. Ground floor: off-centre right entrance a 6-panel door, studded. To left a 4/8 sash, to right a 3/6 sash. Chamfered bressumer beam with ovolo moulding, renewed at left. First floor: 2 shallow-bay casement windows on shaped sills with brackets and continuous hood. Second floor: 2 similar indows with sills and hoods. Wooden eaves band. Right return has four renewed 8/8 sashes. Range to left: 2 storeys, 2 first-floor windows. Entrance a 6-panel door at left, to right a 4/8 sash with relieving arch over. First floor has two 3/6 horned sashes. Modillion eaves band. INTERIOR: right part retains chamfered beams to rear at right and exposed rafters. Corner fireplace to right at rear with renewed chimneypiece. Upper floors not inspected. Forms a group with Nos 3, 5, and 7 Fish Street (qv) and Nos 21 and 23 Fish Street. The Farrier's Arms now incorporates No.7. The timber-framed houses, Nos 9 and 21, frame the view of Worcester Cathedral (qv) from Fish Street. (Hughes, P.M.University of Birmingham PhD thesis: Worcester: Buildings & the Building Trade in Worcester 1540-1650: -1990: 167).