Description

PERSHORE

SO9545 HIGH STREET
648-1/5/111 (East side)
11/02/65 No.3
(Formerly Listed as:
HIGH STREET
Nos.1 AND 3)

GV II

House and shop. Early C19 with later alterations. Brick
rendered with lined stucco. Welsh-slate roof of shallow pitch
with deep eaves soffit and moulded cornice.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and cellar; 2-window range. On 2nd floor,
6/6 sashes in deeper reveals. 1st floor: plat band; tall
casement windows of 4+4 panes with margin lights, lower dado
panels, and shutters; windows open on to cast-iron verandah
which has hipped painted lead roof, wooden floor, console and
paterae frieze on underside, wooden end brackets, and is
partly masked by blind and fittings. Ground floor: 2 canted
shop bay-windows of 3:6:3 panes of plate glass with blocked
cellar grilles in plinths; central doorcase which has panelled
reveal, glazed 2-leaf 6-pane door, and overlight with renewed,
lettered, mirror.
INTERIOR: dogleg staircase, lower flight turned in C20; old
kitchen fireplace and flagstones to rear.
HISTORICAL NOTE: formerly a mercer's and wool stapler's
premise and owned by the Ganderton family until the C20; the
derelict building to rear (not included) was formerly a wool
barn; in use as an ironmonger's since 1870.

Listing NGR: SO9499845746

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26666722

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Recommended Books

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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)