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| Name: | 3, 5, 7, & 7A, including Hop-Picker's frieze, Sansome Street |
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| HER Reference: | WCM98982 |
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| Type of record: | Building |
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| Grid Reference: | SO 849 551 |
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| Map Sheet: | SO85NW |
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| Parish: | Worcester (Non Civil Parish), Worcester City, Worcestershire |
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| Worcestershire |
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| Worcester, Worcestershire |
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Monument Types
- SHOP (Built 1874/5, 19TH CENTURY AD to 21ST CENTURY AD - 1801 AD to 2050 AD (between))
Protected Status
Full description
SANSOME STREET (North side) Nos.3-7 AND 7A (Odd)
SO8455SE
620-1/12/499
08/03/74
(Formerly Listed as: SANDSOME STREET Nos.3-7, 7A (Odd))
GV II
Row of 4 shops.
Late C19 with later additions and alterations including shop fronts c1980s. Single storey range divided into 4 shop units. Gault brick and limestone ashlar with concealed roof. Plate-glass shop fronts above which remains 2-row brick band, one stretcher, then headder, surmounted by parapet and central pediment. Parapet has outer pierced quatrefoils and pediment carved with rustic scene in bas-relief of The Hop-Pickers by Forsyth. Chamfered coping and upper roll-moulding with central large foliate finial and end acroteria.
INTERIOR: not inspected. {1}
There was a series of hop merchants' offices in this block in the early 20th century, and one of these (Sidney Myers) submitted a building application for offices in 1874 {3}{4}. The building was converted into 4 shops in 1935 {5}.
Further detail on the Hop Pickers sculpture is provided by David Patten, through research into the contemporary newspapers, correspondence etc.. This shows that the sculpture can certainly be attributed to William Forsyth.{6}
Sources and further reading
| <1> | Unpublished document: 2001. Revised list of buildings of special architectural or historical interest. Department of Culture, Media and Sport, London. |
| <2> | Unpublished document: 1924. Kelly's Directory of Worcestershire 1924. 327. |
| <3> | Unpublished document: Attwood, David. 2003. 19th-century Planning Applications - a database. 397. |
| <4*> | Unpublished document: 1874. App no 397 - Offices, 1 Sansome Street. Worcester City Historic Building Applications. |
| <5*> | Unpublished document: Yeates & Jones. 1935. App no 6468 - 4 shops, Sansome Street. Worcester City Historic Building Applications. |
| <6*> | Unpublished document: Patten, David. 2013. Research notes on the Hop Pickers Pediment. |
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