9, 10 AND 11, RAVEN LANE

The buildings at 9, 10, and 11 Raven Lane in Ludlow comprise a group of houses dating from the 16th to 17th centuries, with later alterations. The front elevation is stuccoed, with sections of 20th-century tongue and groove vertical weatherboarding to the timber frame, and has a twin-gabled roof covered in plain tiles and Welsh slate, featuring a brick stack to the rear and right side. The houses are arranged with a 2-unit plan, three storeys and a cellar, and originally had a 2-window range. Late 18th-century 3/3 sash windows are present, set under a jetty with boarded consoles and soffits; more recent 3/3 sashes are in the gables. The front door is a 19th-century four-panel design, with a moulded architrave, flanked by 10/10 sashes in moulded architraves. A passageway to the rear, on the far right, has a plain doorcase with a cambered head. A jetty extends across the overall front. The right elevation presents rubble construction with brick quoins, flues, and a brick superstructure, with modillion eaves. A left return is weather boarded, featuring a 6/6 sash in a moulded case to the first floor and a 4/4 sash in a moulded case within the gable. Timber-framing is visible in the passage to the rear, alongside corbelled rubble, brick arches, exposed ceiling beams, a plank door with a fixed light and grilled overlight, and a light with a sliding shutter. The rear features a 2-light casement under a segmental arch, with a 2-light metal casement above. A further range to the rear (No.10) is from the 18th century and is three storeys high, with a 2-window range – the windows are 3-light casements and fixed lights with old leaded lights, set under segmental arches, along with a 3-light window with a central metal casement above. A central four-panel door is set under a segmental arch, flanked by a fixed light (to the left) and a 3-light window with a central metal casement, both also under segmental arches. The interior of the 18th-century range reveals stop-chamfered ceiling beams and moulded plaster to the ground floor. The range at No.11 is constructed of roughcast brick, two storeys high, with steps leading to a 20th-century door, and a 2-light casement to the right, both under cambered stucco lintels, and modillion eaves. The gable showcases two roughcast brick stacks and various casements. The ground floor is of rubble construction, with some timber-framing and brickwork, and includes stairs to the upper floor, likely dating to the early 19th century. The rear range has a shallow pitched slate roof with a stone-coped gable parapet. Timber framing in the gable of the rear range suggests an 18th-century raising and extension of an earlier wing of No.9. Internally, the houses display boarded floors, massive ceiling beams, and exposed joists.