Description

PERSHORE

SO9545 HIGH STREET 648-1/5/110 (East side) 11/02/65 No.1 (Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET (East side) Nos.1 AND 3)

GV II

House and shop. Early C19 with later alterations. Brick rendered with lined stucco. Welsh-slate roof of shallow pitch with deep eaves soffit, cornice, and brick stack at right end. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; 2-window range. 2nd floor: horned 6/6 sashes with cambered heads and deeper reveals. 1st floor: plat band; casements of 4/4 panes with margin lights, moulded dado panels, and shutters, opening onto decorative cast-iron verandah which has hipped painted lead roof and wooden floor with console and paterae frieze on underside and wooden end brackets. Ground floor: shopfront has 2 canted bay-windows of plate glass with deep mullions flanking entrance which has enriched architrave, panelled reveals, C20 door, and 2 stone steps; wood-framed doorway at left end leads to side passage. Plinth. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: said to be on the site of the former Kings Head Inn. In use as a chemist's shop by 1814.



Listing NGR: SO9502545749

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