Brass Foundary at Rear of Number 17
BRASS FOUNDARY AT REAR OF NUMBER 17, LOAD STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1348275
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Brass Foundary at Rear of Number 17
- Statutory Address:
- BRASS FOUNDARY AT REAR OF NUMBER 17, LOAD STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1348275
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Brass Foundary at Rear of Number 17
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRASS FOUNDARY AT REAR OF NUMBER 17, 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:
- BRASS FOUNDARY AT REAR OF NUMBER 17, 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 78650 75286
Details
SO 7875 SE BEWDLEY CP LOAD STREET (south side)
13/148 Brass foundry at rear of No 17 5.6.72
GV II
Brass foundry, now part of Bewdley Museum. Probably mid-C18, restored late C20. Brick with tile roofs. Range running back along plot in four blocks of similar date. South-west front: north-west block (offices): two storeys, dentilled brick cornice, two 2-light casements; ground floor: four windows: two 2-light casements to left, two single-light fixed case- ments to right, all under segmental heads; entrance between two windows to left has a wooden architrave, ledged and boarded door; furnace: tall tapering brick stack to rear (north-east) wall; one storey: brick dentilled cornice, two shuttered windows with segmental heads; an entrance to each corner has wooden architrave, ledged and boarded door and segmental head; finishing shops: two storeys, five windows: three 2-light casements to left, two 4-light casements to right; ground floor: four windows: blocked 2-light casement to left, 2-light casement under flat head, and two 2-light casements to right; three entrances: to left corner with wooden architrave and two- leaf door; roughly central entrance has a wooden architrave under segmental head with ledged and boarded door; to right hand corner entrance has a semi- circular head and two-leaf door; final block: single storey; seven windows: mainly 3-light casements, save the central window which is a 6-pane horizontally sliding sash; two entrances; to left hand corner has a wooden architrave, under segmental head and two-leaf door; roughly central entrance has a segmental head behind an external sliding door; attached to south-east gable of this building is a small blacksmith's forge.
Listing NGR: SO7865075286
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 156793
- 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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