Numbers 1-6 (Consecutive) (Flats) And Medieval Remains In Garden

LUDLOW

SO5174 COLLEGE STREET 825-1/1/225 No.3 15/03/74 Nos. 1-6 (consecutive) (flats) and attached medieval remains in garden (Formerly Listed as: COLLEGE STREET Ludlow and District Hospital including the medieval remains in garden)

GV II

House, now flats. c1690, to earlier core. Roughcast; plain tile roof with shallower pitch over projecting bay; cross-axial ridge stack. 2-storeys and cellar; 5-window range: C20, 6/6 sashes, 2 in projecting bay to right; scalloped rafter feet; small gable with C20 timber-framing, bargeboards and pendant; to left, enriched lead rainwater head, dated 1690. Entrance to left of projecting bay: C20 panelled double doors, with earlier overlight, in moulded wood pointed arch with quatrefoils in spandrels; moulded wood architrave; to left, two C20, 6/6 sashes; to right, one 6/6, 1 C20, 8/8 sash. Narrow light to right returned side. INTERIOR: entrance hall has exposed timber post with enriched pilaster. Jacobean open-well staircase with bobbin balusters, mutilated at 1st floor level; exposed timbers. Flat 2: moulded stone reveals in plaster; fireplace with stop-moulded beam and splayed limestone reveals. Flat 3: stone 4-centred arch; ashlar pier with chamfered return. Flat 1: chamfered head; exposed brace to wattle and daub wall. Flat 6: chamfered ashlar fireplace and exposed post. Cellar: contains some medieval stone work. Remains in gardens: wall to south and west, wall to north. C14. Rubble with dressed sandstone to blocked openings; wall to north has some brick panels and superstructure; 2 wide (blocked) openings with splayed reveals. Wall to south: 2-storeys of stone arches, one with lintel of probable grave slab?; south face retains splayed reveals; south-west doorway with span arched head to east, and lower span arched head and chamfered jambs to west side (exterior).

Listing NGR: SO5110674722