35, 37 AND 39, WIDEMARSH STREET

This is a group of three houses at 35, 37 and 39 Widemars Street, Hereford, originally known as numbers 15, 16 and 17. The front of the buildings dates to the 18th and 19th centuries, though they incorporate an earlier core. The construction is primarily brick, with a slate roof. The buildings comprise three storeys and a cellar, with a seven-window front.

Number 35 features three late 19th-century windows with 1/1 sashes and stone sills, set within brick flat arches topped with fluted keystones. Above, two 2/2 sashes sit beneath segmental arches with channelled keystones, punctuated by a moulded band and a parapet with coping. A 20th-century shop front occupies the ground floor. Numbers 37 and 39 have four 20th-century 2/2 sashes with stone sills under segmental arches with fluted keystones. A storeyband runs along the elevation. The upper floors contain three 20th-century 2/2 sashes and one blocked opening, finished with a coping parapet. The right-hand entrance to number 39 has a recessed 6-panel door within a panelled, moulded case, complemented by a 20th-century fluted architrave and moulded pediment. A late 19th/early 20th-century shop front is set to the left, featuring a 3/4 glazed door flanked by plate-glass windows, with pilaster glazing bars above a glazed brick base. The entrance to the right has a half-glazed door with coloured lights beneath a fanlight, set within a plain case under a moulded cornice. The rear of the buildings displays twin timber-framed gables.

Internally, number 37 has a 19th-century dogleg staircase with winder steps, stick balusters, a moulded ceiling frame on the first floor, a mid-19th-century marble fireplace, a corner fireplace, visible vertical studwork, and early 19th-century doors. On the ground floor is a kitchen range and a cellar with ashlar masonry. A 17th-century moulded plaster ceiling with fleur-de-lys motifs in the corners and a central boss, housed within a moulded frame, is noteworthy. Hop motifs, cable decorations, and pyramid-stop mouldings to the main frame-beams and mirror-backed shelves are also present.

Number 35 features moulded ceiling beams and plaster on the first floor. Number 39 includes a late 18th/early 19th-century dogleg staircase with turned balusters, a moulded string and rail, and 19th-century 4- and 6-panel doors and architraves on the second floor. The ground floor features a tiled floor commemorating famous Liberals, some panelling, and a passage displaying 17th-century timber-framing, moulded and 19th-century stick framing, a margin-glazed door, and panelled cupboard doors. The cellar is stone-lined.