Wharf House

NEEN SOLLARS

SO67SE SOUTHNET 582-1/6/178 Wharf House

II

House. c1799. Brick with dentil course eaves and stepped verge. Plain-tile roof. Brick projecting gable-end and central ridge stacks. Main block with C20 end and rear extensions. EXTERIOR: 2-storey and cellars. South front is a 2-window range of 3/3 sashes with gauged brick lintels and 6/6 sashes at ground floor, flanking central projecting 2-storey brick bow with curved 3/3 sash and 6/6 sash at ground floor, and with semi-conical tiled roof. Cellars with brick segmental-arched openings. Single-storey brick tiled gabled C20 extension wing to left with C20 multi-pane bow window. Right-hand gable end: front entrance to left of projecting stack with boarded door set in C20 rubble stone surrounds under C20 projecting canopy. C20 2-storey brick tiled gabled extension to right. Left gable end covered by single-storey extension. Rear: partly covered by 2-storey extension wing. Tall staircase window. INTERIOR: original moulded creased boarded doors in moulded frames throughout. Cellar with large brick-vaulted storerooms with renewed oak boarded doors. The house was the headquarters of the Kington and Leominster Canal Company formed 1791, closed 1858.

Listing NGR: SO6685670430