27, New Street

WORCESTER

SO8554NW NEW STREET 620-1/17/456 (East side) 08/03/74 No.27

GV II

House, now shops with flat and offices over. Late C18 with probably earlier origins and later additions and alterations including c1980s shop fronts. Reddish-brown brick in Flemish bond with flat arches of red gauged brick; ashlar sills and cornice; concealed roof and left side brick stack with oversailing course and pots; cast-iron rainwaterheads and fallpipes. PLAN: L-plan, range at rear. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with attic, 5 first-floor windows. First and second floors have 6/6 sashes in plain reveals and with sills with flat arches. Crowning frieze and ovolo-moulded cornice, coped parapet. Attic dormer concealed behind parapet. Ground floor, central entrance a panelled door with 3 lower panels and 6 glazed panels, 6-pane overlight; shop front has panelled pilasters to either side of main entrance, fascia and cornice, glazed shop windows and outer glazed doors with overlights. Range to rear: 2-storey range has 6/6 and 8/8 sashes; 2 tripartite windows with 6/6 between 2/2 ashes; part-glazed door with overlight with Gothick glazing bars. 2 rainwaterheads and fallpipes. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: New Street had changed its name from the medieval Glover Street by 1523. Hughes: 'New Street, in the C16 and C17 phase, was a street of dwelling-houses with workshops behind.' Nos 25-30 (consecutive) form a group with the listed buildings in Cornmarket (qv). (Hughes P: Buildings and the Building Trade in Worcester 1540-1650: PhD thesis: 1990-: 200).