46 And 48, Friar Street

WORCESTER

SO8554NW FRIAR STREET 620-1/17/302 (West side) 22/05/54 Nos.46 AND 48

GV II

Erected as one house, now sub-divided into 2, numbered right to left, described left to right. c1500-50 with later additions and alterations. Probably for the Greene family. Timber-frame and render with plain clay tile roof. Small brick stack to front wall, left of centre, oversailing detail and pot. Large brick and stone stack to rear right (north). Rectangular plan of 2 unequal bays. Outshut with catslide roof to rear, originally separate range to rear right now linked. 2 storeys and attic. 3 (1:2) first-floor windows. Only the ground-floor storey posts, joists and bressumer to the jettied first-floor are visible externally. First-floor windows are 2/2 sashes. No.48 has 6-pane shop window to left and glazed door to right; No.44 has central glazed door flanked by 4-pane shop windows, all C20. 2 renewed gabled dormers with paired side-hung casements. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: Archival research shows that by 1674 there was already a single bay timber framed building of smaller proportions than the main house behind the chimney stack of No.46. It is almost certainly later than the front range, although its date and function are uncertain. It is suggested that this became a separate dwelling and that Nos 46 and 48 were also divided up. (Molyneux N, Hughes P, Price S: Vernacular Architecture Group Spring Conference Worcs 1995: 2.6; Worcester Streets: Hughes P and Molyneux N: Friar Street: Worcester: 1984-: 22).