40, LOAD STREET
40, LOAD STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1100784
- Date first listed:
- 22-Apr-1950
- List Entry Name:
- 40, LOAD STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 40, LOAD STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1100784
- Date first listed:
- 22-Apr-1950
- List Entry Name:
- 40, LOAD STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 40, LOAD STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 40, LOAD STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Wyre Forest (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bewdley
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 78502 75302
Details
SO 7875 SE BEWDLEY CP LOAD STREET (north side) SO 7875 SW
12/136 No 40 13/136
22.4.50
GV II
House, now shop. Early C17, clad late C18, raised mid-C20. Timber-frame clad in brick with flat roof. Three storeys, stone coped parapet; 3 + 2 windows: glazing bar sashes with plastered wedge lintels and stone sills (portion to right set back by about two metres); second floor: windows similar with concrete lintels; ground floor: entrance to left hand corner to passage has a C17 boarded door with wrought iron spikes to the top and strap hinges; shop front: pilastered with scroll brackets to dentilled cornice, central entrance to shop has an overlight and a 2-leaf half- glazed door flanked by plate glass windows; to right recessed portion has a plate glass window under stone wedge lintel. Interior: exposed beams of C17 building, including console bracket to jetty visible in passage- way. There is some reset small square panelling with frieze on the first floor.
Listing NGR: SO7850275302
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 156780
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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