36 And 42, Broad Street

The building at 36 and 42 Broad Street, Bromyard, is a red brick house dating to the later 18th century. The brick is laid in a Flemish bond pattern, with brick stacks and a slate roof. The street frontage is three bays wide, featuring window openings with painted sills and rusticated flat arches topped with enriched and tabled keystones. The first floor windows are 8-over-8 sash frames, while the second floor windows are 4-over-4 sash frames. An early 20th-century shop front has been inserted at first-floor level and projects slightly forward. This shop front includes a central doorway, with additional doorways set back in the centre of the eastern bay and at the western edge of the frontage. The central and western doors have been replaced, and the plate glass windows are surmounted by transom lights. The shop front and central doorway are framed by fluted pilasters with panelled caps, and the stallriser is also panelled. The rear of the building is gabled. The interior has not been inspected.

Bromyard is a small market town with recorded origins around 840. The building is situated on a principal thoroughfare of the town, adjoining the market square, and the street appears to have been fully built up by the early 17th century, though some plots have been redeveloped since. The building’s designation at Grade II recognizes its handsome and symmetrical Georgian frontage (above the ground floor), its historical significance as an 18th-century town house with an interesting early 20th-century shop front, and its group value with other listed buildings along Broad Street.