Angel Hotel

PERSHORE

SO9445 HIGH STREET 648-1/5/115 (East side) 03/08/72 No.9 Angel Hotel (Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET (East side) Angel Hotel)

GV II

Inn. Probably originally C16, part C18/early C19, and refronted and remodelled 1920. Brick with stucco render. Left-hand section has plain tile roof concealed by parapet and moulded eaves cornice; right-hand bay has steeply-pitched roof of old tiles behind parapet; 3 brick stacks, at centre of left-hand section and to ends of right-hand bay, with others to rear. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and cellar. Main, left-hand, section of 3 bays (four 1st-floor windows) with previously-separate single bay to right; long rear wing. Left-hand section: outer bays have 2-storey bow-windows of 5 transomed lights with leaded glazing and casements and paterae frieze; to centre on first floor, inn sign with relief lettering and motif within segmental-arched frame, flanked by 2 small leaded casements; below, central entrance has moulded architrave, canopy supported by heavy consoles, leaded sidelights, and 4 stone steps; deep plinth with 2 cellar openings. Right-hand bay: 2/2 sash with projecting sill to 1st floor; carriage-entrance below. Rear wing is of brick, partly stuccoed, with old-tile roof to part; dogtooth eaves to part; vestigial timber-framing to rear right angled wing. INTERIOR: has some heavy-scantling timber posts and spine-beams, some chamfered and stopped. Fireplace of 1575 (see Pevsner). (BoE: Pevsner N: Worcestershire: Harmondsworth: 1968-: 243).

Listing NGR: SO9501545782