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SO9545 BRIDGE STREET 648-1/5/62 (West side) 03/08/72 No.78 Manor House Hotel

GV II

Hotel. Mid C19. Stucco. Welsh-slate roof with oversailing verges with bargeboards and deep eaves soffits, 4 brick ridge stacks. Victorian Tudor style. EXTERIOR: Bridge Street elevation: 3 storeys and cellar; 4-window range. Rusticated quoins and chamfered plinth with 2 cellar openings. Windows are 2-light mullion-and-transom with plate glass casements, hoodmoulds, rusticated surrounds, and projecting sills. Doorcase, on right, has hoodmould, rusticated surround, overlight, decorative 4-panel door, and 2 stone steps. Main, south, elevation (left return) is of 3 bays, the left bay recessed, lower, and with additions to left and front; the central bay with projecting 2-storey castellated bay; the right bay gabled and with full-height bay-window. Rusticated quoins. Windows mostly as on Bridge Street elevation. Right bay: bay window on 1st and 2nd floors is 5-sided and has mullion-and-transom windows of 2:3:2: lights with plate glass casements, and deep cornices below pitched roofs; on ground floor, 4 French windows in rusticated surround. Central bay: castellated bay has moulded strings, 2-light 1st-floor window with Gothick tracery, gabled porch with pointed-arched entrance below hoodmould, inner door with side-lights, and 2 windows on each floor of returns. Left bay has quasi dormer with enriched barge boards and end stack on left. 3 further 2-storey wings, one with decorative tiled roof and dormers. INTERIOR: not inspected. An early example of Victorian Tudor style. (BoE: Pevsner N: Worcestershire: Harmondsworth: 1968-: 243).



Listing NGR: SO9506845434

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