95 And 96, Corve Street

LUDLOW

SO5175 CORVE STREET 825-1/2/259 (East side) 07/09/89 Nos.95 AND 96

GV II

Houses. Late C16/early C17 (No.96) and late C18 (No.95). No.96 built of timber-frame with C18/19 brick infill; No.95 of colour-washed brick; gabled plain tile roofs, with steeper pitch to No.96; C18/19 brick ridge stacks. Each cottage of 1-unit plan. 2-storeys; 4-window range. C20 plank door to No.96, and segmental brick arch over C19 plank door to No.95. Segmental brick arches over late C19/early C20 two-light casements to No.95; similar C20 casements to No.96. C19 rubble stone lean-to to left of No.95. INTERIOR: square-section beam and C17 reused purlins to No.95. No.96 has exposed timber-frame with diagonal wall bracing and wattle and daub infill; C17 split-oak joists to ground floor; 2-bay roof with wattle and daub infill to queen-post truss supported on tie beam and jowled posts of heavy scantling; queen-strut truss against right-hand wall (to No.94 Corve Street (qv)).

Listing NGR: SO5112875221