Bevington and Craven House with wrought iron screen to street

This is an 18th-century building fronting Silver Street, with a rear structure of earlier date. The visible facade is two storeys high, constructed of red brick on a stone plinth, featuring a moulded coping. Projecting stone quoins are present, alongside a stone string at first floor level, a stone frieze, and a moulded, coved cornice. The building is topped with a plain stone parapet and a hipped roof covered in old tiles.

The front features two two-storey angular bays with cornices and matching parapets, flanking a central single window on the first floor. Below this is a central six-panel door, within a stone architrave frame accentuated by a triple keystone, set in a surround of plain stone with a moulded stone pediment. All windows are glazing bar sash windows within stone architraves.

A low stone wall, incorporating square angle and gate piers of rusticated ashlar with moulded caps, screens a garden from the road. The piers are topped with good contemporary wrought iron rails featuring panel standards with a scroll pattern and urns on small pyramid scrolls. A central gateway is present, with rustic piers displaying pineapple motifs on the capping and intricate scrollwork. Panelled standards include a panel bearing the interlaced initials “MWM,” representing Michael Webb, the owner in 1783.

Inside, a square staircase has slender, decorated turned balusters, ornamented strings, and curled bars. A notable marble fireplace featuring a central panel depicting Neptune and Persephone is found on the ground floor’s left side.

A service and stable wing, set back from the main block, is constructed of coursed rubble, with a moulded stone eaves cornice and an old tile roof. It features three first-floor windows with glazing bar sashes and a date panel inscribed with the initials “M.W.A.” and the year 1772. The ground floor has one window and arched door; wide double doors are situated on the right-hand side. A 20th-century brick wing with a tiled roof extends at a right angle from the left side. An arched stair window on the east front features radiating and wreathed glazing. The south front is a two-storey and attic structure from the 17th and early 18th centuries, built in rubble stone with a hipped roof of old tiles, and with three irregular dormer casements. Irregular windows of various dates and a six-panel arched door are located on the right-hand side of the centre.