Royden House And No 17

SO 9076 - 9176 BELBROUGHTON CP CHURCH HILL (east side) Belbroughton

12/16 Royden House and No 17 (Formerly listed as 8.7.77 Dryden House)

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House with smaller house adjoining to left. Late C18 with mid-C19 and mid- C20 alterations and additions. Brick, roughcast to right side; plain tiled roof with gable-end parapets and stacks. Three storeys with dentilled eaves cornice. Three bays; openings of outer bays on ground and first floor have been altered and the windows are C20; ground floor has two tripartite sashes with plaster segmental heads, engaged columns and moulded cornices; outer bays of first floor have simpler tripartite sashes and there is a central 9-pane sash; three second floor 6-pane sashes. Central entrance retains its distyle Doric portico and there is a half-glazed door with a moulded architrave and transom light with Gothick traceried glazing bars. Interior not inspected. No 17 adjoins left gable end; mid-C19; brick with machine-tiled roof, decora- tive ridge tiles and a pair of stacks at left end of ridge. Two storeys; single bay; 3-light first floor window; bay window and 4-panelled door with transom light beneath shallow hipped-roofed canopy on moulded posts. Despite the C20 alterations (when C19 bay windows were removed) this house is included as it occupies a prominent site facing the southern approach to the village.

Listing NGR: SO9192576928