Description

LUDLOW

SO5174 LOWER BROAD STREET
825-1/1/495 (West side)
Retaining wall to highway and
flights of steps

GV II

Retaining wall and steps. 1829-30. Coursed rubble stone and
brick. Approx 1.5m high the wall runs southwards from outside
No.72 (qv) to outside No.34 (qv), and has flights of
flag-topped steps up to the highway at intervals. The wall was
created as part of the gradient improvement works carried out
following the advice of Thomas Telford in 1829.
(Lloyd D: Broad Street - its houses and residents through
eight centuries: Birmingham: 1979-: P.15-16).

Listing NGR: SO5122174326

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26570970

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Recommended Books

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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]