51-53, HIGH STREET

This is a multi-phase urban building located on Bromyard High Street, with its earliest origins in the 16th century, remodelled in the 18th century, and altered in the 20th century. The principal facade is rendered brick to the upper floors and features a 21st-century shop front on the ground floor. The rear elevations are constructed from rubble stone. The roof is slate-covered, with brick chimney stacks.

The building is aligned with the road, comprising three bays, with the middle bay being narrower than the flanking bays. A two-storey rear bay extends perpendicularly from the front range, with a brick addition containing a staircase. The front has a 21st-century shop front at ground floor level, mirroring the style of other shops on the High Street. The first floor features four six-over-six hornless sash windows set in recessed reveals with projecting sills. The second floor has three hornless sashes with four-over-four lights, with a three-over-three window centrally positioned.

The interior has undergone extensive replacement and reordering, as informed by a 2009 Historic Buildings Research report. Fragments of a timber frame remain in the front of the main range, and the roof structure, dating from the 16th or early 17th century, features four main trusses with stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops, collar beams, struts, and v-struts.

Historically, the building likely began as a two-and-a-half storey timber-framed structure with a stone rear. It was refronted in the 18th century, with the front eaves subsequently raised and three second-floor windows added, evidenced within the roof space. Originally a single doorway and staircase likely occupied the central, narrow bay.

The building is designated at Grade II for its architectural coherence, historic interest marked by the intact 16th or early 17th-century roof structure, and its group value contributing to the historic street scene alongside neighboring listed buildings.