56 And 58, Bridge Street

A late 18th and early 19th century house, originally one building but later divided into two separate dwellings at numbers 56 and 58 Bridge Street, Pershore. The building is constructed of red brick in a Flemish bond pattern. It has a Welsh slate roof, hidden behind a high parapet with three rendered blind oculi (round windows) above a painted cornice. There are four brick side and end stacks, and dogtooth detailing to the eaves on the left return.

The building is three storeys high, with a cellar, and originally had three windows across the front. It features painted rusticated quoins and a rendered, chamfered plinth. The second floor has segmental arched windows with 3/3 sashes; the first floor has a flat-arched 3/9 sash on the left and a horned 6/6 sash on the right. The central window on each floor was blocked during a later alteration, and all windows have painted channelled voussoirs (shaped stones), keystones, and sills. On the ground floor, the right-hand side has a 3/9 sash window similar to those above, while the left-hand side has a later added canted bay window with plate glass sashes and a pitched, leaded roof. Each window has a cellar grille below. A pair of entrances, one for number 56 on the right and one for number 58 on the left, are centrally located. Each entrance has a Classical architrave with three-quarter Tuscan columns on plinths, a corniced entablature, a fanlight with radial glazing bars, a six-panel door, and three stone steps.

The interior contains a curved dividing wall. The building was formerly used as a dissenting meeting house.