66 And 68, Bridge Street

PERSHORE

SO9545 BRIDGE STREET 648-1/5/57 (West side) 11/02/65 Nos.66 AND 68

GV II

House, now divided into 2. Mid-late C18, altered C19. Red brick in Flemish bond with painted lower courses to left. Welsh-slate roof with stone coping, painted moulded eaves cornice and 2 brick end stacks. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and cellar; 3-window range. Painted sill bands. Three 3/6 sashes to 2nd floor, two 6/6 sashes on 1st floor, all having painted channelled voussoirs and keystones. To right on 1st and ground floor, a 2-storey canted bay-window with pitched leaded roof and sashes, 2/2 x 3 of plate glass sashes on first floor, 4/4:6/6:4/4 below. Ground floor has 2nd canted bay window on left, similarly fenestrated and with cornice and pitched leaded roof. Central Classical doorcase (to No.66) has 3/4 Doric columns, entablature with paterae and open pediment, decorative fanlight, 6-panel door, iron hand rails, and 4 stone steps of which 3 are nosed. Door at left end (to No.68), with slight incursion onto facade of The Old Malthouse, has fluted round-arched architrave with paterae and open pediment, decorative fanlight, 6-panel door and 4 stone steps, 3 nosed. Part-painted part-rendered plinth with cellar grilles below windows. Rear wing with brick dentilled eaves. INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SO9506745487