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The Boston Tea Party

18, Broad Street, WR1 3NF

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1359631
Date first listed:: 04-Apr-1971
List Entry Name:: The Boston Tea Party
Statutory Address:: 18, Broad Street, WR1 3NF

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1359631
Date first listed:: 04-Apr-1971
List Entry Name:: The Boston Tea Party
Statutory Address 1:: 18, Broad Street, WR1 3NF

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 18, Broad Street, WR1 3NF

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Worcestershire
District:: Worcester (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SO 84846 54972

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 3 October 2023 to amend the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards

SO8454NE 620-1/16/112

WORCESTER BROAD STREET (North side) No 18 The Boston Tea Party

(Formerly listed as No.18 The Dolphin Public House Includes: No.1 The Dolphin Public House ANGEL PLACE. )

05/04/71

GV II

Two houses, now public house. Occupies a corner site. Late C18, with possibly earlier origins. Brick, now painted, with painted stucco to ground floor; rear range is pebble-dashed; plain tile roof and ashlar copings. L-plan with further dwelling abutting to right return. Three storeys, two first-floor windows.

First and second floors have tripartite windows, 6/6 between 2/2 sashes with slender Doric columns between each sash, all in plain reveals and with sills and flat arches of gauged brick. Crowning frieze and cyma reversa moulded cornice; blocking course. Ground floor forms a continuous unit with return, from left: entrance a renewed eight-raised-and-fielded-panel door, blocked side-light and elliptical arch. 15-pane segmental-arched light in shallow reveals and with sill and further multi-pane window which follows a curve which continues to right return. To either side of left window, abutting door at left and further window at right, a timber pilaster surmounted by crowning frieze and cornice which continues to return with three further pilasters and renewed tripartite bow window with 3/6 between 2/4 sashes.

Right return (main range) otherwise has tripartite window to first floor with 6/6 between 2/2 sash in shallow reveals and with segmental arch and sill; second floor has 4/8 sash.

Further range to right return: two storeys with attics, four first-floor windows. First floor has 8/8 sashes in plain reveals and with sills; renewed attic dormers have 3/6 sashes. Ground floor has end entrances (alike and renewed): double 8-raised-and-fielded-panel doors in panelled reveals and with overlight, tooled arch and hood on scrolled acanthus brackets. Renewed tripartite windows: 4/8 between ~ sashes and bowed window with 3/6 between 2/4 sashes.

INTERIOR: ground floor altered, no evidence of the original plan remains. Otherwise not inspected.

HISTORICAL NOTE: By the C16, Broad Street was second only to High Street in commercial importance. On the direct route through the city from the (Worcester) Bridge (qv), it contained the business premises of a number of important traders and at least two inns. Several houses in Broad Street are known to have C17 and earlier origins (Nos 32, 40, 41 and 57 (qqv)).

All the listed buildings in Broad Street form a significant group: Nos 10, 10A, 11 with the Crown Inn, 12, 18, 19, 29, 32-36 (consecutive), 40, 41, 43-49 (consecutive), 51-63 (consecutive), 69, 70 with Church of All Saints (qqv). The 1971 List describes No. 1 Angel Place as being rebuilt.

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 488481
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.