This is Queen Elizabeth House, a 15th century timber-framed building currently on Trinity Street in Worcester. Legend has is that Queen Elizabeth I addressed the public from the balcony. But she is more likely to be connected to the building through an endowment to the hospital (Trinity Hospital).

It was originally part of the almshouses of Trinity Hospital. The present Queen Elizabeth Almshouses are in Upper Tything.

In 1891 the building was moved, to save it from a road improvement scheme. This was helped by Mayor Smith-Carrington who raised the funds to move it. A complete renovation was carried out in 1995. It is now used by Worcester City Museum.

Grade II* listed building.

Queen Elizabeth House, Worcester

   WORCESTER

   SO8555SW TRINITY STREET
   620-1/13/651 (East side)
   22/05/54 Queen Elizabeth House

   II*

   House, now offices. Early/mid C18 with later additions and
   alterations. Comprehensive external repairs including
   re-roofing 1995. Timber-framed with painted rendered infill
   panels, some wattle and daub. Plain clay tile roof with paired
   projecting gables over gallery. Lead-lined timber gutters.
   Rectangular plan of 2 bays. Part of southern ground-floor bay
   was a through walkway. External jettied gallery to first-floor
   of west elevation.
   2 storeys. 2 first-floor windows. Timber-framing mainly square
   panels, four high to wall-plate; close-studding to left
   ground-floor of west elevation; tension braces; infilled
   square panels form gallery balustrade on moulded bressumer;
   collar and queen-posts to left main gable, similar plus
   V-struts to gallery gables; double purlin roof, one set
   clasped by strutted collar. First-floor windows are 4-light
   with diamond leaded casements; boarded door to left and right
   of elevation accessing gallery. 2-light leaded window to left
   ground-floor, boarded door to centre, open walkway to right.
   Left-return has paired 4-light diamond leaded windows to each
   floor.
   INTERIOR: exposed framing to ground-floor including ceilings,
   plain chamfers to bridging beams; modern staircase to gallery;
   2 rooms to first-floor, open to underside of roof, framing to
   walls and ceilings exposed, boarded doors.
   HISTORICAL NOTE: Queen Elizabeth house was jacked up and moved
   to the present location in 1891. Its original site was approx.
   10 metres to the north, the walkway straddling the eastern
   part of The Trinity. The reputed visit by Queen Elizabeth I in
   1575 s not corroborated, a more likely connection is thought
   to be via an endowment to the Trinity hospital, school and
   almshouses. It has been suggested that this was the
   schoolmaster's house.

   Scheduled Ancient Monument.

   (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Worcestershire:
   Harmondsworth: 1968-1985: 330; Transactions of the
   Worcestershire Archaeological Society: Carver M O H (Editor):
   Medieval Worcester - An Archaeological Framework: Worcester:
   1980-: P277-278; Nicholas Molyneux, Pat Hughes, Stephen Price:
   Vernacular Architecture Group Spring Conference
   Worcestershire: 1995-: 2.13; Tim Bridges and Charles Mundy:
   Worcester - A Pictorial History: West Sussex: 1996: 73 & 74).

This text is a legacy record and has not been updated since the building was originally listed. Details of the building may have changed in the intervening time. You should not rely on this listing as an accurate description of the building.