Brick House

WIGMORE CP BROAD STREET (east side) SO 4068 - 4168 9/50 Brick House 11.5.59 GV II House. Early c18 remodelling of C17 or earlier structure with mid- to late C19 and late C20 alterations and additions. Refaced in handmade brick with slate roof and brick stack at left end of ridge. Three storeys and cellar with three-course band at first floor level of front elevation. Four bays. Windows on ground and first floor are wooden cross-casements (some of which have been replaced with later copies). The windows in the second bay of the ground floor and the outer bays of the first floor have cambered heads. The windows in the outer bays of the ground floor have been replaced by C19 hipped- roofed canted bay windows. On the second floor are three 2-light casements with cambered heads. The main entrance in the third bay has a flat canopy on shaped brackets, a C20 door of six panels and a transom light with a central glazing bar. There is a C20 lean-to addition at the rear. Interior is recorded to contain a C17 overmantel with three bays of enriched arcaded panelling. (RCHM, Herefs, III, p 210, item 6).

Listing NGR: SO4141368985