13, Angel Street

WORCESTER

SO8455SE ANGEL STREET 620-1/12/22 (South side) 02/11/99 No.13

GV II

Warehouse, now shop. c1850 with later additions and alterations including shop front c1980's. Pinkish-brown brick in Flemish bond with stone sills and ashlar rustication to ground floor; the brick facade has colourwashed bands; concealed roof. 4 storeys, 2 first-floor windows with further loading bay to each floor. Ground floor: to left part a rusticated plinth and broad, rusticated pilasters to either side. Traditional-style glazed shop front incorporates part-glazed door and overlight with fascia. To right a carriage entrance with cambered arch and keystone. Windows: first and second floors have 8/8 sashes, third floor has 4/8 sashes, all in plain reveals and with sills and flat arches of gauged brick. Pitching doors (to right bay, above carriage arch): all plank doors in diminishing heights; all in plain reveals and with flat arches of gauged brick, except to third floor a timber lintel; all with hinged platforms. Hoist mounting to upper stage. Continuous 2-course eaves band. Coped parapet. Right return retains elliptically-arched openings, 3 to ground and first floors, then two to upper floors, all with mainly 2-light casement windows. INTERIOR: the ground floor has been gutted. Otherwise not inspected. A good example of a mid C19 warehouse, adjacent to the Corn Exchange (qv) with which it is probably contemporary.