19, Cruxwell Street

19 Cruxwell Street, Bromyard

An 18th-century dwelling with attached dairy range, built of rough coarsed rubble stone with a tiled roof and brick chimney stacks.

The building occupies a corner plot between Cruxwell Street and Church Lane and is roughly square in plan. It comprises a double-depth arrangement with two hipped pitched ranges orientated north-south in line with Church Lane, joined at the south end with a hipped pitch. A single-storey pitched dairy range projects to the north.

The house rises to three storeys. The Church Lane elevation is symmetrically arranged with three windows to the first and second floors and two windows with a central door at ground-floor level. A central pediment features shaped stone corbels. The moulded door-case has pilasters and a moulded cornice with dentilation. The fielded panelled door is fitted with a rectangular over-light. The south elevation is also symmetrical, with two windows to each storey and a central door at ground-floor level. This door has a fielded-panel design and a less elaborate moulded door-case with a three-light over-light. All windows are hornless sashes with moulded frames and projecting stone cills. Those at ground and first-floor level are six-over-six panes; those on the second floor are three-over-three.

The east façade has projecting sections at the south end, including a short projecting chimney stack. It features two small casements irregularly positioned and two low doorways.

The dairy is a single storey.

Cruxwell Street is one of the principal thoroughfares of Bromyard, running east from the vicarage and church as a continuation of Old Road, known as Corkeswalle Vicus in the late 13th century and recorded as Croxewalle Streate in 1575. The central area of the town to the south of the church and around the market place was fully built up by the early 17th century, though some plots have been redeveloped since. The first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1887 shows the building as a single range on Church Lane; subsequent maps show the current roughly-square plan. The dairy range is a later extension to the main building and represents different phases of construction, with further extension to the north.

The exterior of the building remains unaltered and retains its historic footprint. It makes a positive contribution to the street scene and has group value with nearby listed buildings.