3, High Street

This early 19th century house and shop is located on High Street, Pershore. The brick exterior is rendered with lined stucco and has a shallow-pitched Welsh-slate roof with deep eaves, a soffit, and a moulded cornice. The building is three storeys and has a cellar, presenting a two-window front. The second floor has 6/6 sash windows set in deeper reveals. The first floor features a plat band and tall casement windows with 4+4 panes, margin lights, a lower dado panel, and shutters. These windows open onto a cast-iron verandah with a hipped lead roof, a wooden floor, console and paterae frieze on the underside, wooden end brackets; the verandah is partially obscured by blind fittings. The ground floor has two canted shop bay-windows with 3:6:3 panes of plate glass, with blocked cellar grilles in the plinths. A central doorcase contains a panelled reveal, a glazed two-leaf door with six panes, and an overlight with a renewed lettered mirror. Internally, there is a dogleg staircase, with the lower flight re-turned in the 20th century. An old kitchen fireplace and flagstones remain at the rear. The building was formerly a mercer’s and wool stapler's premise, owned by the Ganderton family until the 20th century. A derelict building to the rear, no longer part of the listing, was formerly a wool barn, and the property has been used as an ironmonger's since 1870.