diff --git a/src/RestSharp/Authenticators/OAuth/OAuth1Authenticator.cs b/src/RestSharp/Authenticators/OAuth/OAuth1Authenticator.cs
index a4641ff5a..bd7f2da78 100644
--- a/src/RestSharp/Authenticators/OAuth/OAuth1Authenticator.cs
+++ b/src/RestSharp/Authenticators/OAuth/OAuth1Authenticator.cs
@@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ void AddOAuthData(IRestClient client, IRestRequest request, OAuthWorkflow workfl
             // if this change causes trouble we need to introduce a flag indicating the specific OAuth implementation level,
             // or implement a separate class for each OAuth version
             static bool BaseQuery(Parameter x)
-                => x.Type is ParameterType.GetOrPost or ParameterType.QueryString or ParameterType.QueryStringWithoutEncode;
+                => x.Type is ParameterType.GetOrPost or ParameterType.QueryString;
 
             var query =
                 request.AlwaysMultipartFormData || request.Files.Count > 0
diff --git a/src/RestSharp/Enum.cs b/src/RestSharp/Enum.cs
index 7044888b7..0958e9a35 100644
--- a/src/RestSharp/Enum.cs
+++ b/src/RestSharp/Enum.cs
@@ -12,19 +12,15 @@
 //   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 //   limitations under the License. 
 
-namespace RestSharp
-{
+namespace RestSharp {
     /// <summary>
     /// Types of parameters that can be added to requests
     /// </summary>
-    public enum ParameterType
-    {
+    public enum ParameterType {
         /// <summary>
         /// Cookie parameter
         /// </summary>
-        Cookie, 
-        GetOrPost, UrlSegment, HttpHeader, RequestBody, QueryString,
-        QueryStringWithoutEncode
+        Cookie, GetOrPost, UrlSegment, HttpHeader, RequestBody, QueryString, QueryStringWithoutEncode
     }
 
     /// <summary>
@@ -35,8 +31,7 @@ public enum DataFormat { Json, Xml, None }
     /// <summary>
     /// HTTP method to use when making requests
     /// </summary>
-    public enum Method
-    {
+    public enum Method {
         GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS,
         PATCH, MERGE, COPY
     }
@@ -44,8 +39,7 @@ public enum Method
     /// <summary>
     /// Format strings for commonly-used date formats
     /// </summary>
-    public struct DateFormat
-    {
+    public struct DateFormat {
         /// <summary>
         /// .NET format string for ISO 8601 date format
         /// </summary>
diff --git a/src/RestSharp/IRestRequest.cs b/src/RestSharp/IRestRequest.cs
index f03c12e9a..0bf2d1541 100644
--- a/src/RestSharp/IRestRequest.cs
+++ b/src/RestSharp/IRestRequest.cs
@@ -417,6 +417,15 @@ public interface IRestRequest
         /// <returns></returns>
         IRestRequest AddUrlSegment(string name, string value);
 
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Shortcut to AddParameter(name, value, UrlSegment) overload
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <param name="name">Name of the segment to add</param>
+        /// <param name="value">Value of the segment to add</param>
+        /// <param name="encode">Specify false if the value should not be encoded</param>
+        /// <returns></returns>
+        IRestRequest AddUrlSegment(string name, string value, bool encode);
+
         /// <summary>
         /// Shortcut to AddParameter(name, value, UrlSegment) overload
         /// </summary>
diff --git a/src/RestSharp/Parameter.cs b/src/RestSharp/Parameter.cs
index 6fe6efbf5..e6dab8e1b 100644
--- a/src/RestSharp/Parameter.cs
+++ b/src/RestSharp/Parameter.cs
@@ -20,25 +20,24 @@
 using JetBrains.Annotations;
 using RestSharp.Validation;
 
-namespace RestSharp
-{
+namespace RestSharp {
     /// <summary>
     /// Parameter container for REST requests
     /// </summary>
     [Obsolete("Use Add[XXX]Parameter methods of IRestRequest instead of instantiating the Parameter class.")]
-    public class Parameter : IEquatable<Parameter>
-    {
-        public Parameter(string name, object value, ParameterType type)
-        {
+    public class Parameter : IEquatable<Parameter> {
+        public Parameter(string name, object? value, ParameterType type, bool encode = true) {
             if (type != ParameterType.RequestBody)
                 Ensure.NotEmpty(name, nameof(name));
 
-            Name  = name;
-            Value = type != ParameterType.UrlSegment ? value : value?.ToString().Replace("%2F", "/").Replace("%2f", "/");
-            Type  = type;
+            Name   = name;
+            Value  = type != ParameterType.UrlSegment ? value : value?.ToString().Replace("%2F", "/").Replace("%2f", "/");
+            Type   = type == ParameterType.QueryStringWithoutEncode ? ParameterType.QueryString : type;
+            Encode = type != ParameterType.QueryStringWithoutEncode && encode;
         }
 
-        public Parameter(string name, object value, string contentType, ParameterType type) : this(name, value, type) => ContentType = contentType;
+        public Parameter(string name, object value, string contentType, ParameterType type, bool encode = true) : this(name, value, type, encode)
+            => ContentType = contentType;
 
         /// <summary>
         /// Name of the parameter
@@ -65,38 +64,36 @@ public Parameter(string name, object value, ParameterType type)
         /// </summary>
         public string? ContentType { get; set; }
 
+        internal bool Encode { get; }
+
         /// <summary>
         /// Return a human-readable representation of this parameter
         /// </summary>
         /// <returns>String</returns>
         public override string ToString() => $"{Name}={Value}";
 
-        public bool Equals(Parameter other)
-        {
+        public bool Equals(Parameter? other) {
             if (ReferenceEquals(null, other)) return false;
             if (ReferenceEquals(this, other)) return true;
 
-            return Name == other.Name
-                && Equals(Value, other.Value)
-                && Type        == other.Type
-                && DataFormat  == other.DataFormat
-                && ContentType == other.ContentType;
+            return Name == other.Name &&
+                Equals(Value, other.Value) &&
+                Type == other.Type &&
+                DataFormat == other.DataFormat &&
+                ContentType == other.ContentType;
         }
 
-        public override bool Equals(object obj)
-            => !ReferenceEquals(null, obj)
-                && (ReferenceEquals(this, obj) || obj.GetType() == this.GetType() && Equals((Parameter) obj));
+        public override bool Equals(object? obj)
+            => !ReferenceEquals(null, obj) && (ReferenceEquals(this, obj) || obj.GetType() == GetType() && Equals((Parameter)obj));
 
         // ReSharper disable NonReadonlyMemberInGetHashCode
-        public override int GetHashCode()
-        {
-            unchecked
-            {
+        public override int GetHashCode() {
+            unchecked {
                 var hashCode = Name != null ? Name.GetHashCode() : 0;
 
                 hashCode = (hashCode * 397) ^ (Value != null ? Value.GetHashCode() : 0);
-                hashCode = (hashCode * 397) ^ (int) Type;
-                hashCode = (hashCode * 397) ^ (int) DataFormat;
+                hashCode = (hashCode * 397) ^ (int)Type;
+                hashCode = (hashCode * 397) ^ (int)DataFormat;
                 hashCode = (hashCode * 397) ^ (ContentType != null ? ContentType.GetHashCode() : 0);
                 return hashCode;
             }
@@ -104,10 +101,8 @@ public override int GetHashCode()
         // ReSharper enable NonReadonlyMemberInGetHashCode
     }
 
-    public class XmlParameter : Parameter
-    {
-        public XmlParameter(string name, object value, string? xmlNamespace = null) : base(name, value, ParameterType.RequestBody)
-        {
+    public class XmlParameter : Parameter {
+        public XmlParameter(string name, object value, string? xmlNamespace = null) : base(name, value, ParameterType.RequestBody) {
             XmlNamespace = xmlNamespace;
             DataFormat   = DataFormat.Xml;
             ContentType  = Serialization.ContentType.Xml;
@@ -116,16 +111,13 @@ public XmlParameter(string name, object value, string? xmlNamespace = null) : ba
         public string? XmlNamespace { get; }
     }
 
-    public class JsonParameter : Parameter
-    {
-        public JsonParameter(string name, object value) : base(name, value, ParameterType.RequestBody)
-        {
+    public class JsonParameter : Parameter {
+        public JsonParameter(string name, object value) : base(name, value, ParameterType.RequestBody) {
             DataFormat  = DataFormat.Json;
             ContentType = Serialization.ContentType.Json;
         }
 
-        public JsonParameter(string name, object value, string contentType) : base(name, value, ParameterType.RequestBody)
-        {
+        public JsonParameter(string name, object value, string contentType) : base(name, value, ParameterType.RequestBody) {
             DataFormat  = DataFormat.Json;
             ContentType = contentType ?? Serialization.ContentType.Json;
         }
diff --git a/src/RestSharp/RestClient.cs b/src/RestSharp/RestClient.cs
index bfc84eb72..8b5d3de0c 100644
--- a/src/RestSharp/RestClient.cs
+++ b/src/RestSharp/RestClient.cs
@@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ public Uri BuildUri(IRestRequest request)
             return new Uri(finalUri);
         }
 
-        string IRestClient.BuildUriWithoutQueryParameters(IRestRequest request)
+        string? IRestClient.BuildUriWithoutQueryParameters(IRestRequest request)
         {
             DoBuildUriValidations(request);
 
@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ UrlSegmentParamsValues GetUrlSegmentParamsValues(IRestRequest request)
             foreach (var parameter in parameters)
             {
                 var paramPlaceHolder = $"{{{parameter.Name}}}";
-                var paramValue       = Encode(parameter.Value!.ToString());
+                var paramValue       = parameter.Encode ? Encode(parameter.Value!.ToString()) : parameter.Value!.ToString();
 
                 if (hasResource) assembled = assembled.Replace(paramPlaceHolder, paramValue);
 
@@ -313,11 +313,11 @@ UrlSegmentParamsValues GetUrlSegmentParamsValues(IRestRequest request)
             return new UrlSegmentParamsValues(builder.Uri, assembled);
         }
 
-        static string MergeBaseUrlAndResource(Uri baseUrl, string resource)
+        static string? MergeBaseUrlAndResource(Uri? baseUrl, string? resource)
         {
             var assembled = resource;
 
-            if (!IsNullOrEmpty(assembled) && assembled.StartsWith("/")) assembled = assembled.Substring(1);
+            if (!IsNullOrEmpty(assembled) && assembled!.StartsWith("/")) assembled = assembled.Substring(1);
 
             if (baseUrl == null || IsNullOrEmpty(baseUrl.AbsoluteUri)) return assembled;
 
@@ -326,7 +326,7 @@ static string MergeBaseUrlAndResource(Uri baseUrl, string resource)
             return assembled != null ? new Uri(usingBaseUri, assembled).AbsoluteUri : baseUrl.AbsoluteUri;
         }
 
-        string ApplyQueryStringParamsValuesToUri(string mergedUri, IRestRequest request)
+        string? ApplyQueryStringParamsValuesToUri(string? mergedUri, IRestRequest request)
         {
             var parameters = GetQueryStringParameters(request).ToList();
             parameters.AddRange(GetDefaultQueryStringParameters(request));
@@ -342,28 +342,22 @@ IEnumerable<Parameter> GetDefaultQueryStringParameters(IRestRequest request)
             => request.Method != Method.POST && request.Method != Method.PUT && request.Method != Method.PATCH
                 ? DefaultParameters
                     .Where(
-                        p => p.Type == ParameterType.GetOrPost   ||
-                            p.Type  == ParameterType.QueryString ||
-                            p.Type  == ParameterType.QueryStringWithoutEncode
+                        p => p.Type is ParameterType.GetOrPost or ParameterType.QueryString
                     )
                 : DefaultParameters
                     .Where(
-                        p => p.Type == ParameterType.QueryString ||
-                            p.Type  == ParameterType.QueryStringWithoutEncode
+                        p => p.Type is ParameterType.QueryString
                     );
 
         static IEnumerable<Parameter> GetQueryStringParameters(IRestRequest request)
             => request.Method != Method.POST && request.Method != Method.PUT && request.Method != Method.PATCH
                 ? request.Parameters
                     .Where(
-                        p => p.Type == ParameterType.GetOrPost   ||
-                            p.Type  == ParameterType.QueryString ||
-                            p.Type  == ParameterType.QueryStringWithoutEncode
+                        p => p.Type is ParameterType.GetOrPost or ParameterType.QueryString
                     )
                 : request.Parameters
                     .Where(
-                        p => p.Type == ParameterType.QueryString ||
-                            p.Type  == ParameterType.QueryStringWithoutEncode
+                        p => p.Type is ParameterType.QueryString 
                     );
 
         Func<IDeserializer>? GetHandler(string contentType)
@@ -402,7 +396,7 @@ string EncodeParameters(IEnumerable<Parameter> parameters, Encoding encoding)
         string EncodeParameter(Parameter parameter, Encoding encoding)
         {
             return
-                parameter.Type == ParameterType.QueryStringWithoutEncode
+                !parameter.Encode
                     ? $"{parameter.Name}={StringOrEmpty(parameter.Value)}"
                     : $"{EncodeQuery(parameter.Name!, encoding)}={EncodeQuery(StringOrEmpty(parameter.Value), encoding)}";
 
diff --git a/src/RestSharp/RestRequest.cs b/src/RestSharp/RestRequest.cs
index eb38c6132..f2a70b176 100644
--- a/src/RestSharp/RestRequest.cs
+++ b/src/RestSharp/RestRequest.cs
@@ -426,13 +426,21 @@ public IRestRequest AddOrUpdateHeaders(ICollection<KeyValuePair<string, string>>
 
         /// <inheritdoc />
         public IRestRequest AddUrlSegment(string name, string value) => AddParameter(name, value, ParameterType.UrlSegment);
+        
+        /// <inheritdoc />
+        public IRestRequest AddUrlSegment(string name, string value, bool encode) {
+            var parameter = new Parameter(name, value, ParameterType.UrlSegment, encode);
+            return AddParameter(parameter);
+        }
 
         /// <inheritdoc />
         public IRestRequest AddQueryParameter(string name, string value) => AddParameter(name, value, ParameterType.QueryString);
 
         /// <inheritdoc />
-        public IRestRequest AddQueryParameter(string name, string value, bool encode)
-            => AddParameter(name, value, encode ? ParameterType.QueryString : ParameterType.QueryStringWithoutEncode);
+        public IRestRequest AddQueryParameter(string name, string value, bool encode) {
+            var parameter = new Parameter(name, value, ParameterType.QueryString, encode);
+            return AddParameter(parameter);
+        }
 
         /// <inheritdoc />
         public IRestRequest AddDecompressionMethod(DecompressionMethods decompressionMethod)
diff --git a/test/RestSharp.Tests/RestRequestTests.cs b/test/RestSharp.Tests/RestRequestTests.cs
index 915c4efef..3f3b0e299 100644
--- a/test/RestSharp.Tests/RestRequestTests.cs
+++ b/test/RestSharp.Tests/RestRequestTests.cs
@@ -22,10 +22,12 @@ public void RestRequest_Test_Already_Encoded()
             Assert.AreEqual(2, request.Parameters.Count);
             Assert.AreEqual("query", request.Parameters[0].Name);
             Assert.AreEqual("Id%3d198", request.Parameters[0].Value);
-            Assert.AreEqual(ParameterType.QueryStringWithoutEncode, request.Parameters[0].Type);
+            Assert.AreEqual(ParameterType.QueryString, request.Parameters[0].Type);
+            Assert.AreEqual(false, request.Parameters[0].Encode);
             Assert.AreEqual("another", request.Parameters[1].Name);
             Assert.AreEqual("notencoded", request.Parameters[1].Value);
-            Assert.AreEqual(ParameterType.QueryStringWithoutEncode, request.Parameters[1].Type);
+            Assert.AreEqual(ParameterType.QueryString, request.Parameters[1].Type);
+            Assert.AreEqual(false, request.Parameters[1].Encode);
         }
 
         [Test]