Description

LUDLOW

SO5174 BULL RING 825-1/1/166 (West side) Nos.6 AND 7

GV II

Shops and dwellings, now shop. Mid C19. Brick; painted brick; plain tiles and Welsh slate; brick end stack to No.6. 2-unit plan. 3-storeys and cellar. No.6: 3-window range: margin-glazed sashes under enriched lintels with keyblocks with figureheads, to 1st and 2nd floors; moulded wood eaves. Shopfront has central glazed double doors with nameboard over, under panelled soffit, flanked by canted windows with moulded glazing shafts; moulded fascia board and hood, with consoles on pilasters. No.7: single-window range: canted bay with margin glazed sashes, coved underhang, and wood modillioned eaves; 2 margin-glazed sashes over, with stucco lintels and corbelled stone sills; moulded wood eaves. Shopfront has central half-glazed door with overlight, under panelled soffit; flanked by canted shop windows with moulded glazing bars and pilasters, under moulded wood hood, with enriched consoles on moulded pilasters. Right returned side: passage to rear has C19 timber-framing with brick infill, and half-glazed door with margin glazing and fielded panels in simple architrave. Gable of rear wing displays C19 timber-framing, with 8/8 sash and C20 leaded 2-light casement to 2nd floor; two C20 leaded lights to 1st floor; three 15/10 sashes, bowed, to ground floor; panelled door, now part-glazed, and overlight with glazing bars. Wing to rear: fixed lights to 1st and 2nd floors; plank door and leaded overlight under segmental arch, with leaded light under segmental arch to left. INTERIOR: cellar mainly brick lined with mutilated brick vault to No.6; No.7 retains earlier ceiling beams with chamfered joists. Stick baluster staircase; C17 chamfered beam in wing to rear of No.6. C19 fireplaces. The whole retains many fixtures and fittings of the iron monger's trade, having been owned by the Rickards family since 1868.

Listing NGR: SO5122374711

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Recommended Books

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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas