Description

SO 7875 SE BEWDLEY CP LOAD STREET (south side)

13/148 Brass foundry at rear
of No 17
5.6.72

GV II

Brass foundry, now part of Bewdley Museum. Probably mid-C18, restored
late C20. Brick with tile roofs. Range running back along plot in four
blocks of similar date. South-west front: north-west block (offices):
two storeys, dentilled brick cornice, two 2-light casements; ground floor:
four windows: two 2-light casements to left, two single-light fixed case-
ments to right, all under segmental heads; entrance between two windows
to left has a wooden architrave, ledged and boarded door; furnace: tall
tapering brick stack to rear (north-east) wall; one storey: brick dentilled
cornice, two shuttered windows with segmental heads; an entrance to each
corner has wooden architrave, ledged and boarded door and segmental head;
finishing shops: two storeys, five windows: three 2-light casements to left,
two 4-light casements to right; ground floor: four windows: blocked 2-light
casement to left, 2-light casement under flat head, and two 2-light casements
to right; three entrances: to left corner with wooden architrave and two-
leaf door; roughly central entrance has a wooden architrave under segmental
head with ledged and boarded door; to right hand corner entrance has a semi-
circular head and two-leaf door; final block: single storey; seven windows:
mainly 3-light casements, save the central window which is a 6-pane horizontally
sliding sash; two entrances; to left hand corner has a wooden architrave, under
segmental head and two-leaf door; roughly central entrance has a segmental
head behind an external sliding door; attached to south-east gable of this
building is a small blacksmith's forge.

Listing NGR: SO7865075286

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26631670

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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6