44-50, Lower Broad Street

These are a group of houses located on Lower Broad Street in Ludlow, dating to the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Nos 49 and 50 face the street. The buildings are constructed of painted brick, with Welsh slate to the front roof slope and plain tiles to the rear; brick stacks are visible to the rear. The buildings are arranged in an L-shape.

The front elevation of Nos 49 and 50 presents a three-window range with 6/6 sash windows. A central entrance features a part-glazed panelled door, sheltered by a truncated hood with a 19th-century lead hood on a cast-iron trellis. Flanking the entrance are canted bays with sashes of 4/4, 8/8, and 4/4, all beneath slate pentice roofs with moulded wood eaves. To the left, the entrance to a passageway is distinguished by an open pedimented wooden hood, supported on plain pilasters.

The passageway has been stuccoed and reveals exposed ceiling beams. A 6-panel door in a moulded architrave leads to No.49. The rear elevation is from the early 19th century and has a 20th-century composite tile roof and a 6/6 sash window with a margin-glazed light under a segmental arch. A canted bay on the ground floor features 6/12 and 2/4 sashes. Nos 47 and 48 are built together with the rear of No.50, which includes a 19th-century three-light casement under a soldier arch and a 20th-century box roof dormer. The ground floor has a pair of 6/6 sashes with a simple hood, all under a segmental arch, and a segmental arch over the passage leading to the basement.

Nos 47 and 48 are brick-built with a plain tile roof and a brick ridge stack. They rise two storeys and have an attic, displaying a three-window range of 6/6 sashes under segmental arches. Four box dormers, two with 3/6 and two with 3/3 sashes in moulded cases, are present. The entrances on the left and right have 20th-century half-glazed doors with moulded wood flat hoods on pilasters.

Nos 44-46, also from the early 19th century, are constructed of brick with a hipped Welsh slate roof and two brick ridge stacks. They are three storeys high and feature a six-window range with 6/6 sashes under brick flat arches, with 3/3 sashes above. Entrances are located on the left and right, with No.45 retaining a four-panel door and a moulded architrave, as well as rustic porches with original hoods to Nos.44 and 46. The rear of Nos.44-48 is of rubble with brick panels and 8/8 sashes.

Internally, Nos 49 and 50 display 18th-century doors and coved ceilings, a massive exposed ceiling beam on the ground floor rear, a stick baluster staircase, and 18th-century purlins in the rear wing.