The Old House And Quadrant Walls

REDDITCH B HIGH STREET (east side) SP 0061 - 0161 Feckenham 9/106 The Old House and quadrant walls (formerly 10.4.54 listed as the Old Courthouse)

GV II

House and adjoining quadrant walls. Early C19. Brick with shallow hipped plain tiled roof. Three storeys and attic with dentilled eaves cornice. Three bays; central bay set within recessed round-headed arched panel; windows'have rusticated flat heads with raised keyblocks, and moulded archi- traves; ground floor windows are tripartite and have central 12-pane sashes; three first floor 12-pane sashes; three second floor 6-pane sashes, the central window of which has a cambered head; central entrance has a distyle portico with fluted columns and the entablature is enriched with rosettes, paterae and a central urn relief; the 6-panelled door has a moulded architrave and traceried fanlight. Interior not inspected. Large stacks at rear-at junction of rear wings. The quadrant walls are of brick with a sandstone coping. They are about 12 feet high and stepped to reach a height of about eight feet where they front the street. The left wall has a rectangular light and a 4-pane sash inserted in it. The right wall has an inserted doorway. Walls terminate in octagonal piers with sandstone cappings and large ball finials. The right wall has a south return of about 12 yards long which terminates in a square pier with bullnosed corners and also has a sandstone capping with ball finial. The building adjoining the left wall to the rear is not of special architectural interest.

Listing NGR: SP0090361393