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PERSHORE

SO9545 BRIDGE STREET
648-1/5/5 (East side)
11/02/65 No.7
Bedford House

GV II*

House. Early C19. Brick with stuccoed front. Hipped plain tile
roof behind high parapet with 2 rendered end stacks and
lateral stacks to side and rear.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and cellar; 2-window range. Ground floor
is rusticated with plinth; upper floors have plat bands and
panelled pilasters to ends and centre supporting deep eaves
cornice. On 2nd-floor 4/8 sashes in moulded architraves. 1st
floor: full-height 8/12 sashes in moulded architraves leading
onto full-width decorative wrought-iron balcony with pitched
lead roof supported by brackets.
Ground floor: 8/8 sashes with projecting sills. Cellar grille.
Doorcase on left has decorative fanlight; 6-panel, formerly
2-leaved, door; 2 stone steps with nosings. Brick dentilled
eaves cornice to right return and rear.
INTERIOR: curved wall to hall; dog-leg staircase has handrail
with spiral curtail and stick balusters; fluted doorcases with
paterae and panelled reveals; decorative doors with
round-arched panels, some grained; internal decorative
fanlight; grey marble fireplace.
HISTORICAL NOTE: possibly an extensive remodelling of an
earlier house referred to in 1784.
(BoE: Pevsner N: Worcestershire: Harmondsworth: 1968-: 242; ).

Listing NGR: SO9503245699