International Stores

SO 7225-7325 13/72

NEWENT BROAD STREET (north side) No 1 (International Stores)

GV II*

Shop: C15, late C17 or early C18, mid C19; Smooth render to Broad Street, painted brick gable to left: some brick-nogged timber- framing to rear, and English-bond brickwork: slate, tiled and flat roofs. Square block with internal courtyard: 2 storey, some lofts. To Broad Street, 3 windows wide- with plain rendered projecting gable left, right return moulded plinth, single blocked window, moulded sill with end consoles, flat, eared surround to window, projecting moulded head on consoles. Front, plinth, paired similar window; mid C20 shop front on right. Above, gable painted brickwork, right return rendered: plain string course. Two-pane sash window, projecting moulded sill on brackets, plain eared raised surround, with plain head with cambered top; main front paired similar windows each end, single in centre. Above parapet gable with moulded coping, apex finial, 4-pane wooden window, pointed head, sill as first floor windows: roof behind slated. To right plain parapet coping, flat roof behind. Left return front mid C20 brickwork where exposed, rear first floor part close studded timber, brick nogged: 3 light mullion and transom wooden window, to first floor, with bressumer and wallplate exposed. Ground floor largely covered by housing to conveyer belt. Left gable timber-framed (see interior). Beyond early C18 brick wing, set back width of gable, lean-to in front: tiled. Ground floor obscured by single-storey wing, not of special interest. Beyond boarded door in heavy frame. Left gable 2-light mullion and transom window first floor, 3-light mullion to loft. Brick chimney on side. Interior: Slate-roofed gabled wing: ground floor heavy ceiling beams, central off surviving main posts, with curved brace to one, First floor subdivided by timber-framed wall: other 3 walls rear room close-studded framing: double chamfer visible to one wall post in cross wall. In wing behind a C17 door, 3 boards with moulding at joints. Loft: 4 bay roof, 1 full, 2 half trusses, arch-braced collar, 'V' struts above shaped to give quatrefoil in top, bottom section ogee. Two pairs flat purlins, square ridge, 3 tiers wind braces in each bay, shaped to give trefoil where they meet. Gables tie-beam and collar, heavy braces to wall posts below on rear, some studs survive at front: struts to collar, plain 'V' struts above. Upper floor of slated wing originally open to roof, loft formed probably C17. A very important medieval survival.

Listing NGR: SO7224925862