Description

SP 0061-0161
9/111

REDDITCH B
Feckenham
HIGH STREET (east side)
Nos 44 and 46

GV
II
Pair of houses. Early C19 with mid-C20 alterations and additions. Brick, plain tiled roofs with end stacks.

Three storeys with dentilled eaves cornice. Two plus two bays; windows have moulded architraves; ground and first floor windows have cambered heads and are twelve-pane sashes; second floor windows are nine-pane sashes. Central entrance to No 46 retains its open pediment on fluted consoles and a raised and fielded six-panelled door with traceried fanlight. Central entrance to No 44 is a C20 replica of the original doorcase and is now blocked; present entrance is situated in adjoining wall about six feet long and ten feet high and has a cambered head and C20 six-panelled door. There is a Norwich Union fire insurance mark between the first floor windows on both houses.

Interior: original ceiling mouldings and woodwork survive. Open well staircases at rear rising to second floor with slender columnar newels and moulded handrails. Full-height hipped rear wings accommodate the staircases and have long round-headed multi-paned stair lights.

Listing NGR: SP0096161545

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26460352

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Recommended Books

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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)