The Merchant'S House

The Merchant's House is a late 15th-century house that was re-erected and restored in 1967. It features a timber-frame structure with rendered infill and a tiled roof, designed in a T-plan with a cross-wing at the upper end. The house includes a two-bay hall with a through-passage, although the service bay was not re-erected. The cross-wing has two storeys and one window on each floor, both containing four unglazed lights. The hall range has a two-tier, four-light window on the left and a small window on the right that lights the chamber. The entrance to the through-passage on the right has a restored depressed ogee head. The framing of the cross-wing is jettied with widely spaced studding, featuring curved tension braces on the ground floor and additional braces above. The truss includes two curved raking struts and a vertical strut below the cambered collar, with V-struts in the apex. The wall of the hall range consists of two rectangular panels in height. Inside, the hall is half-floored, and there is a smoke hood against the through-passage. The house was relocated from the corner of Station Street and Worcester Road in Bromsgrove in 1962.