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

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