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

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
• 
  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas