83 And 84, High Street

WORCESTER

SO8454NE HIGH STREET 620-1/16/352 (West side) 22/05/54 Nos.83 AND 84 Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET (West side) Nos.83, 83A AND 84)

GV II

House, now shop. Early C18 with origins in the mid C17 and with later additions and alterations including c1990s ground-floor shop front. Pinkish-red brick in Flemish bond with stucco keystones and timber sills and cornice; plain tile roof. 3 storeys, 6 first-floor windows. First-floor has 1/1 flush sashes. 3-course first-floor band. Second-floor has 6/6 flush sashes. All windows with flat arches of gauged brick and raised keystones embellished with foliate motifs; all keystones have cornices. Renewed crowning cornice. Ground floor: glazed shop front has timber columns, left end and central lazed entrances. INTERIOR: first-floor noted as retaining original joinery including panelled shutters, ground floor renewed; fine early C18 staircase remains on second-floor within stair turret, large cross-section moulded handrail, substantial turned vase balusters, ball finials; attic retains interrupted tie-beam trusses to front range which have been ut back to accommodate the C18 refronting in brick. 2-panel door retained in attic as is an out-of-situ section of early C19 balustrading with slender turned balusters with knops and turned newel posts, a small section of dado moulding in the stair turret on the second-floor indicates where this later stair had replaced the C18 stair on the lower floors. The rear wing also contains two C17 roof trusses and some framing. (Dr Pat Hughes: Nos. 83/84 High Street, Worcester: 1999-).