Kerwood And Company

REDDITCH B CHURCH ROAD (south side) SP 0467 NW Town Centre

12/38 No 7 and 11 (Kerwood & Co)

• II

House, now offices. Mid-C18 with mid-C19 and mid-C20 alterations. Brick, stuccoed to front with partly-hipped plain tiled roofs and left and end rear stacks. Two storeys with moulded plinth and eaves cornice and sill bands. Five plus one bays; rusticated quoins at ends of five-bay part; windows have moulded architraves and keyblocks; windows have all been replaced in C20 by plate glass with an opening upper light on the ground floor and by 2-light windows with transom lights on the first floor. Main entrance at centre of five-bay part has a C19 pilastered surround and moulded flat canopy; door has six raised and fielded panels and plain transom lights. Interior not inspected. The additional bay at the right end appears to be of mid-C19 date and is similarly detailed to the rest of the front of the building except that it has no sill bands or end quoins. One of the oldest buildings surviving in the town centre.

Listing NGR: SP0406967736