How well do you know Worcester's timber-framed buildings?

How well do you know the timber-framed buildings around Worcester? This week's quiz is inspired by the work of Freddie and Mary Charles, conservation architects who were responsible for conserving many of the best known timber-framed buildings in the city. This first building at 43-49 St John's, was hidden away, and very neglected for many years, until a campaign to save it in 1974 that saw the above reconstruction produced. The photograph shows how it was in 1951. It was to become the local Age Concern shop for many years and is now a micro brewery. Named after a local man who was largely responsible for saving the building, by what name did it become known?
Alfred Taylor House
Adam West House
Alan Jones House
Pictured here in 1951, what is now the Tudor House Museum in Friar Street and next door at no 44, Henry Starkey, Boot and Shoe maker. The Tudor House Museum was originally built as 3 houses in around 1520 and has had a very varied history. Some Worcester residents will remember visiting as children. For what reason?
To visit the dentist
To visit the library
To go clothes shopping
The Plough Inn on Silver Street is likely to have been built around 1600 and is shown here in 1951, alongside a reconstruction drawing by FWB Charles of how it may have once looked. It was demolished in 1972 to make way for which road?
City Walls Road
Sidbury
Shrub Hill Road
The Golden Lion may look like a much later building from the outside, but the 18th-century facade conceals a fascinating 15th-century merchant's house. You can visit this building today for a cup of coffee and admire the beautifully conserved timbers. Where is it?
HIgh Street
Broad Street
Silver Street
Some of you may remember this fire taking place in 1985 (photograph from the Charles Archive, Worcestershire Archive & Archaeology Service). This building (originally part of a much larger merchant's house built in 1577) was famously the place from which King Charles I fled the Battle of Worcester. In what year did this take place?
1651
1660
1655
This 1951 photograph shows 20 Mealcheapen Street (G R Fletchers) already in a poor state. The 18th-century facade masks a shop and house built between 1500 and 1550, and the drawing illustrates the plan for full reconstruction and conservation of the internal structure. A few doors down, another building, a pub, was partly restored by the Charles family practice, but what was its name?
The Shades
The Glades
The Maze
Yet another early building concealed behind a later facade here at 103 High Street. Believed to date to around 1400, Freddie Charles described the central truss of this building as 'one of the most remarkable survivals of medieval Worcester'. Which nearby medieval street did not survive to the present day after demolition to make way for the Giffard Hotel complex and shopping centre?
Lich Street
Friar Street
Pump Street
This stunning drawing of the possible vision for reconstruction of the canal wing at The Commandery, is much as the work was completed. Up until the early 1970s when Worcester City Council took it on and transformed the building into a museum, what was The Commandery being used as?
A print works
A bed and breakfast
An art gallery
This elevation drawing, again by FWB Charles, was produced in 1984 when a short analysis of the building's development was produced. The farm dates largely to around 1600, with some 19th-century additions, though with some earlier medieval trusses surviving too. What use was the building converted to, and which use continues to this day?
Pub/restaurant
Hotel
Still a private house
The images here show the dismantling of perhaps the most well-travelled medieval roof in the county! The 14th-century Guesten Hall (the ruins of which can still be seen today in College Green behind the Cathedral) was demolished in 1862, but so impressive was its roof structure that it was salvaged and incorporated into the build of Holy Trinity Church, in Shrub Hill. When the church became redundant later in the 20th century, the roof was again to be rescued. Where is it now?
Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings
The Commandery
Worcester City Museum
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