Description

SO9445
648-1/5/68
11/02/65

PERSHORE

BROAD STREET
(West side)
Nos.1, 3 AND 5

GV
II

Detached house with wings, now three. Early C19, altered.
Red brick in Flemish bond. Welsh slate roof to main house with
brick dogtooth and dentilled eaves and brick end stacks,
hipped plain tile roofs to wings with external stack left.
EXTERIOR: central 3-storey 3-bay house with flanking 2-storey
2-bay wings, that on left higher, and 4 gabled wings to rear.
Central range: brick surrounds, mullions to upper-floor
windows, and sill bands; painted plinth courses.
On 2nd floor, central 3/6 sash flanked by tripartite windows
with 3-pane sidelights and central 3/6 sashes, all having
painted cornices. On 1st floor, central round-arched sash with
Gothick-traceried head and painted keystone and imposts,
flanked by Venetian windows with 3-pane side-lights, central
sashes with Gothick-traceried heads, and painted keystones and
cornices. On ground floor, added tripartite bow windows with
4/4:6/6:4/4 sashes, shallow-pitched leaded roofs and concrete
sills, flanking central doorway which has 2-pane side-lights
below painted cornices, wide half-glazed door in panelled
reveal, gothick-traceried fanlight, and keyed archivolt.
Left wing: similar 1st-floor Venetian window with wooden
mullions and stone sill; below, canted bay-window with 4/4
sashes to sides, central sash with Gothick-traceried head,
shallow-pitched leaded roof and stone sill.
Right wing: 6/6 sash with stone lintel and tile sill above
similar but smaller canted bay-window with concrete sill.
Right return: 6/6 boxed sash and remodelled doorcase with
gabled tile roof and C20 door.
Left return: rear wing has 6/6 sashes; ground-floor canted
bay-window of 6/6:8/8:6/6 sashes; and doorcase with 3-pane
overlight, 4-panel door, and trellis porch.
Rear: two 2-storey wings and two single-storey with tile
roofs, brick stacks and further extensions.
INTERIOR: No.1 has moulded stamped plasterwork cornice;
flagstones; panelled doors and moulded doorcases; some crown
glazing.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the plot was bought for development in 1809.

Listing NGR: SO9486345693

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26666667

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