Description

WIGMORE CP BROAD STREET (west side) SO 4069 - 4169 8/56 Steps House [formerly listed as House 11.6.59 at the road fork 75 yards east of the Church (occupied by Mrs Parker)] GV II House, divided into two dwellings. C16 or earlier origins, rebuilt in late C17 with mid-C19 and mid-C20 alterations and additions. Handmade brick, rendered to rear on tall rubble plinth with slate roof and C20 brick stack to rear of south range. L-plan; main range aligned east/west and has external rubble chimney with offsets and rebuilt brick stack on north side. South return, slightly lower in height of one narrow bay. Two storeys, attic and cellar; two-course sill band at first floor level, two-course band (lower course of which is cogged) at attic storey level and above attic light in gable end of east front. East front elevation: single-bay south return to left has a 3-light casement on both main storeys with cambered brick heads, the first floor window interrupts the sill band. Gable end of main range to right has a 2-light wood-mullioned cellar window, a ground floor flat-roofed oriel window and a 3-light casement with a cambered head on the first floor and attic storey. The main entrance, adjacent to the south return, is approached by a flight of brick and sandstone steps and has a flat canopy on-shaped brackets and a ledged and battened door. There is a C20 lean-to rubble porch on the north side and also a C20 lean-to addition on the west side of the south return. Interior is recorded to have some C17 panelling. (RCHM, Herefs, III, p 210, item 11).

Listing NGR: SO4137369050

External Links

• Wikidata Q26473474

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