Bailiff'S House

SO 7875 SE BEWDLEY CP HIGH STREET (north side)

13/48 No 68 & No 69 (Bailiff's House) 22.4.50

GV II*

House. 1607 - 1610 with mid-C19 and some late C20 alterations. Timber- frame with plastered infill on stuccoed brick ground floor, tile roof, stacks to rear. Two storeys with attic lit by three gabled dormers; first floor and attic jettied with a moulded bressummer on consoles; first floor: three windows: square oriels of four lights with ovolo mullions and transoms with side lights, sills supported on two consoles; timber-framed dormers have 3-light C19 casements; ground floor: three windows: two 4-light casements, a 3-light casement to right; two entrances, that to left approached by four concrete steps has an overlight and a C20 ledged and boarded door; entrance to right has a similar door with segmental head bearing the inscription "T 1610 B". Framing: close-studding to first floor; attic is one square panel high with four decorative quadrant braces to each panel, as in a square panel in the gable of each dormer; ground floor largely rebuilt, but retains three consoles to jetty. (FWB Charles, Conservation of Timber Buildings, 1984, London, pp 46-7, 230-233; BoE p 86).

Listing NGR: SO7859175253