Description

LUDLOW

SO5174 BULL RING
825-1/1/166 (West side)
Nos.6 AND 7

GV II

Shops and dwellings, now shop. Mid C19. Brick; painted brick;
plain tiles and Welsh slate; brick end stack to No.6. 2-unit
plan.
3-storeys and cellar. No.6: 3-window range: margin-glazed
sashes under enriched lintels with keyblocks with figureheads,
to 1st and 2nd floors; moulded wood eaves. Shopfront has
central glazed double doors with nameboard over, under
panelled soffit, flanked by canted windows with moulded
glazing shafts; moulded fascia board and hood, with consoles
on pilasters.
No.7: single-window range: canted bay with margin glazed
sashes, coved underhang, and wood modillioned eaves; 2
margin-glazed sashes over, with stucco lintels and corbelled
stone sills; moulded wood eaves.
Shopfront has central half-glazed door with overlight, under
panelled soffit; flanked by canted shop windows with moulded
glazing bars and pilasters, under moulded wood hood, with
enriched consoles on moulded pilasters.
Right returned side: passage to rear has C19 timber-framing
with brick infill, and half-glazed door with margin glazing
and fielded panels in simple architrave. Gable of rear wing
displays C19 timber-framing, with 8/8 sash and C20 leaded
2-light casement to 2nd floor; two C20 leaded lights to 1st
floor; three 15/10 sashes, bowed, to ground floor; panelled
door, now part-glazed, and overlight with glazing bars.
Wing to rear: fixed lights to 1st and 2nd floors; plank door
and leaded overlight under segmental arch, with leaded light
under segmental arch to left.
INTERIOR: cellar mainly brick lined with mutilated brick vault
to No.6; No.7 retains earlier ceiling beams with chamfered
joists. Stick baluster staircase; C17 chamfered beam in wing
to rear of No.6.
C19 fireplaces. The whole retains many fixtures and fittings
of the iron monger's trade, having been owned by the Rickards
family since 1868.

Listing NGR: SO5122374711

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26579517

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Recommended Books

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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings