Description

LUDLOW

SO5175 CORVE STREET
825-1/2/246 (West side)
15/04/54 Nos.46, 47, 48 AND 50

GV II*

Formerly known as: Nos.49 AND 50 CORVE STREET.
Houses. C16. Timber-frame with plaster and render; brick
fronting to ground floor; plain tile roof with break in roof
line at Nos.47/48, and gable to No.50; 1 brick ridge stack
(Nos.46/47); 6-bay plan.
2-storeys and cellars; 6-window range: C20 metal casements.
Jettied 1st floor: box framing to 2 left bays; close studding
to 2 central bays, much restored ornamental framing to right
bays, with cusped quarter braces. Ground floor has C20 metal
casements and plank doors in plain cases; Nos.46/47 have
2-bays; No.46 has entrance porch recessed under plate, and C20
repair work to left corner.
Left returned side has box framing over brick; C20 plank door
to left and C20 metal casement over.
C18 wing to rear with brick storey band to 1st floor and C20
casements to ground and 1st floor. Blocked openings to 2nd
floor, and C20 extension to left side.
Rear of Nos.47 and 48: exposed timber-framing to 1st floor
over C20 brickwork; rubble stack has wing wall to west,
probably remains of further house.
No.50 has shallow wing to rear, of rubble with C18 brickwork
over. Passage to rear, at far right (ie. No.50), has massive
beam (under rubble wall) to rear on C19 piers. Rubble plinth
visible.
INTERIOR: chamfered ceiling beams; some exposed
timber-framing.
(Information from Ludlow Historical Research Group).

Listing NGR: SO5108575218

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17541848

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