Description

LUDLOW

SO5174 LOWER BROAD STREET
825-1/1/352 (West side)
15/03/74 Nos.44-50 (Consecutive)

GV II

Houses. Nos 49 and 50 facing street. Late C18/early C19.
Painted brick; Welsh slate to front pitch, plain tiles to
rear; brick stacks to rear. L-shaped plan.
2-storeys; 3-window range: 6/6 sashes. Central entrance:
part-glazed panelled door, under mutilated hood, with C19 lead
hood on cast-iron trellis; flanked by canted bays with 4/4:
8/8: 4/4 sashes, under slate pentice roofs with moulded wood
eaves; to left, entrance to passage has open pediment moulded
wood hood over moulded wood cambered head on plain pilasters.
Passageway stuccoed, with exposed ceiling beams; 6-panel door
in moulded architrave to No.49. Rear: early C19, with C20
composite tile roof; 6/6 sash, and margin glazed light under
segmental arch; canted bay to ground floor, with large 6/12,
and 2/4 sashes.
Nos 47 and 48 are of one build with rear of No.50, which has
C19, 3-light casement under soldier arch; C20 box roof dormer
over; ground floor has pair of 6/6 sashes with simple hood,
under segmental arch; segmental arch over passage to basement.
Nos.47 and 48: brick; plain tile roof; brick ridge stack;
2-storeys and attic; 3-window range of 6/6 sashes under
segmental arches; 4 box dormers, two with 3/6, two with 3/3
sashes, in moulded cases. Entrances to left and right: C20
half-glazed doors, with moulded wood flat hoods on pilasters;
two 6/6 sashes under segmental arches.
Nos.44-46: early C19; brick; hipped Welsh slate roof; 2 brick
ridge stacks. 3-storeys; 6-window range: 6/6 sashes under
brick flat arches; 3/3 sashes over. Entrances to left, No.46
to right; No.45 retains 4-panel door, with moulded architrave;
rustic porches, with original hoods to Nos.44 and 46. Rear of
Nos.44-48 of rubble, with brick panels, and 8/8 sashes.
INTERIOR: Nos.49 and 50: C18 doors and coved ceilings; massive
exposed ceiling beam to ground floor rear; stick baluster
staircase; C18 purlins to rear wing.

Listing NGR: SO5122674293

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26505862

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