1, Bull Ring

WORCESTER

SO8454NW BULL RING 620-1/15/145 (South side) 08/3/74 No.1 (Formerly Listed as: BULL RING Nos.1 AND 3, 5 (Eastern Half of No.5))

GV II

Terraced house, now dentists' surgery. c1800 with later additions and alterations. Red brick over blue brick plinth; stone sills; stone dressings to rear range. Plain clay tile roof; dentilled eaves, painted. Stack to left rear roof slope and ridge-end right, both have oversailing detail and pots. Timber doorcase. Wrought-iron balconette. PLAN: double-depth with central hallway; formerly single-depth. 3 storeys and cellar. 3 first-floor and 3 second-floor windows, central window on each floor is blind, painted to represent sash. Window to left first-floor 6/6, to right is tripartite 1/1:1/1:1/1; second-floor are 3/3; ground-floor left is 6/6, to right is canted bay 2/2:6/6:2/2; with exception of the latter all windows near-flush-frames with sills and flat gauged-brick arches. 2 roll-edged stone steps to off-centre left entrance, 6-panel door, all raised and fielded, 3-pane overlight; incised pilasters, cornice. Left-return has semi-circular bay to ground-floor (10/10:6/6:10/10), bottom sashes renewed; 6/6 sash above with balconette. Later parallel range to rear projects to left as 3-sided apsidal-end with 1/1 sashes. INTERIOR: Retains joinery details including 5-panel doors, architraves, skirtings, dado and picture rails; staircase has slender turned balusters. HISTORICAL NOTE: The First-Edition OS Map shows curved bay to left return and rear range as extant in 1886.