1, Load Street is a Grade II listed building in the Wyre Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 March 1970. House, shop, restaurant. 1 related planning application.

1, Load Street

WRENN ID
ghost-moat-crag
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wyre Forest
Constituency
Wyre Forest MP: Mark Garnier (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 March 1970
Type
House, shop, restaurant
Address
1, Load Street, Bewdley, DY12 2AF
OS grid reference
SO 787 753
Coordinates
52.37615, -2.31427
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No 1 Load Street, which also includes No 1 Severn Side South, is a house that has been converted into shops and a restaurant. It dates from the early 18th century, with mid-19th century and some late 20th century alterations. The building is constructed of brick and features a hipped tile roof. It stands four storeys tall and has an elaborately moulded brick cornice.

The front has three windows, which are plate glass boxed sashes with segmental heads; some of these are located on the second floor, while the third floor has shorter windows, with the central window being blind. The ground floor features a bowed shop front with pilasters and a dentilled cornice, a central entrance with a two-leaf half-glazed door, and a three-pane shop window on each side.

On the Severn Side South front, the building also has four storeys and a moulded string course at the first and second floors. There are four windows: two canted oriels on the left (which were formerly sashes with segmental heads) and two blind windows with segmental heads on the right. The second floor has a wooden cross-window on the left, a three-light casement, and two boxed plate glass sashes on the right, all with segmental heads. The third floor features a two-light casement on the left, followed by a three-light casement and two blocked windows on the right.

The ground floor has three windows: two 2-light 20th century casements on the left and a three-light 20th century casement to the right of these, with an entrance between them that has a wooden architrave and a half-glazed door. To the right of the three-light casement, there is another entrance leading to the restaurant, and at the right-hand corner, a former shop window has been blocked, featuring an inset moulded wooden architrave and a four-panelled door.

Inside, the staircase leading to the restaurant is an open well staircase with a ramped and moulded handrail, turned balusters, and a closed string.

Local climate

1, Load Street receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 67% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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