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A historic old tudor building on Friar Street, run today by the National Trust.

As it was a Sunday afternoon in September, it wasn't open.

It is a 15th century merchant's house. Built in 1480, it was saved from demolition in the 1930s.

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It is Grade I listed

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WORCESTER

SO8554NW FRIAR STREET 620-1/17/283 (East side) 22/05/54 The Greyfriars (Formerly Listed as: FRIAR STREET Greyfriars)

GV I

House, possibly house and brew-houses. c1485 for Thomas Grene, brewer and High Bailiff of Worcester (1493-97), and his wife Elizabeth; later additions and alterations include probably C16 extension to north wing; further alterations of c1600-30 for Francis Street include the insertion of a staircase, parlour windows and internal frieze, at this stage the rear, south range (ie. possible brew-house) was apparently incorporated into the building; Early C18 a further range was added to the south wing. c1870s the building was converted into 3 shops with tenements, and c1940s (date 1949 on fall-pipes) extensive renovations were carried out for Elsie and Malcolm Matley Moore when the ground-floor front facade was re-created and additional flooring and panelling were inserted. Timber frame with lath and plaster, panelled oak infill with brick nogging to north-east wing, and whitewashed brick to the extension to the south-east wing; plain tile roof; brick stacks.

PLAN: the facade is 69 feet in length (approximately 20 metres), curved to follow the line of the street. 2 storeys with attics to gables, 4 bays; probably originally L-plan with short, gabled cross-wing to north, and with range to south-east probably incorporated as a cross-wing during the C17; further extensions to both wings. There are stacks to the rear of the main range at south-east and north-east.

TIMBER FRAME: mainly of close studding, except to the north wing which has box frames. The first-floor is jettied with a bressumer beam which has hollow, ovolo, hollow and double-ovolo moulding, supported on carved and ovolo-moulded brackets, some renewed. Carving to the brackets on either side of the carriage arch bears the initials 'TG' (Thomas Grene) and 'EG' (Elizabeth Grene) and shields; there is foliate carving to the spandrels of the carriage arch. Slender columnettes articulate the main posts to the ground- and first-floors. Carved bargeboards, partly renewed. Good carpenters marks are clearly visible within the carriage arch.

EXTERIOR: chamfered plinth. Off-centre left carriage entrance with renewed plank doors within hollow-moulded arch in double-hollow-moulded jambs. Replacement 2- and 3-light mullion and transom windows have diamond leaded lights and ovolo-moulded sills. Coving has been added below the jetty. The first-floor has a continuous moulded sill band with hollow, ovolo, hollow and ovolo moulding, partly renewed. Each wing has a 4-light window, the centre has a long, 12-light window; all with ovolo-moulded mullions and transoms and diamond-pane leaded lights. Main entrance to south wing, at rear, through carriage arch: porch with outer posts decorated with slender pilasters, panelled door with carved decoration in the spandrels. The rear of the carriage arch has a similar moulded bressumer beam with a long, 9-light mullion and transom window above; there are further posts and a girding beam with carved decoration in the spandrels within the arch. 2-light mullion window in the apex of the gable. Two further entrances to the north side of the carriage arch give access to the north wing. The north wing gable with has a 3-light, mullioned attic window to its south side. Otherwise the wings have casement windows and 6/6 sashes. Further entrance to the south wing, a re-used, pointed door with 4 panels and quatrefoil decoration with rose motif.