6, Old Road

6, Old Road is an 18th-century dwelling, potentially with an earlier core, located on a corner plot on Old Road and Tenbury Road in Bromyard.

The building is constructed primarily of brick, painted at ground-floor level to imitate timber framing. The roof and pentice hood are slate, and the chimney stacks are brick. The building is rectangular, oriented east-west parallel with Old Road, and has 20th-century additions to the rear. A wide chimney stack is situated to the north-east.

The principal, two-bay, three-storey façade is roughly symmetrical, with the right-hand bay slightly wider. The ground floor features two canted bay windows flanking a central front door, above which a slate pentice runs the length of the building. The ground floor is painted to resemble timber framing. The first and second floors each contain two windows with 20th-century fittings. A large window is at ground-floor level of the gable end, with a small casement window at second-floor level. A wide, rendered shaft supports a brick chimney stack at the top of the gable.

The interior has not been inspected.

Bromyard is a small market town first recorded around 840. No. 6 Old Road sits on a major thoroughfare that runs east from the vicarage and church, formerly known as Corkeswalle Vicus in the late 13th century and Croxewalle Streate in 1575; later Sheep Street in the early 20th century. This central area of the town, south of the church and around the market place, was likely fully built up by the early 17th century, although some plots have been redeveloped since. The roof angle is shallower at the front than the rear, suggesting a possible raising of the building to add the second storey, a feature common to other buildings in Bromyard. An Ordnance Survey map from 1928 first depicts a small block to the north-east of the main range, likely related to the substantial chimney stack, potentially added for commercial use.

The building is designated at Grade II due to its architectural interest as a well-proportioned, modest 18th-century façade, its early date predating the 1840 threshold, and its group value with neighbouring listed buildings.