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Standing Building Recording Survey - 11 Load Street Bewdley Worcestershire DY12 2AF |
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Border Archaeology unpublished report series
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Report (in Series)
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| Abstract: |
This programme of standing building recording undertaken on a Grade II Listed house and outbuildings at No. 11 Load Street, Bewdley, has identified four principal phases of building activity, extending from the late 18th to the late 20th century. Documentary evidence suggests that No. 11 and the adjacent property at No. 10 were used as commercial premises from the early 19th century. Both properties had a long-established association with the printing industry dating back to c.1820 (and possibly earlier). The earliest phase (late 18th-early 19th century) is represented by the street frontage at first- and second-floor level. The broad, round-arched door in the NE-facing elevation may represent the original entrance to the house, and appears to be an original feature, as does the box-sash window at first-floor level. A secondary phase of construction (early to mid-19th century) is represented by the partial reconstruction of the SE gable end of the three-storey house. This rebuilding of the gable end may have been occasioned by the construction of the two-storey building attached to the SE end of the house, which housed the former printing works. Internally, a proportion of the surviving features on the first and second floors appears to date from the early to mid-19th century. Later phases of building activity are represented by the two-bay gabled extension at the SE end of the printing works and the insertion of several fireplaces in the first- and second-floor rooms (c. mid to late 19th century), and a phase of substantial modern alterations. |
| Author: |
G Children
S Priestley
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| Publisher: |
Border Archaeology
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| Other Person/Org: |
Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Worcestershire HER (OASIS Reviewer)
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| Year of Publication: |
2012
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Load Street, Bewdley |
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Worcestershire |
| District: |
Wyre Forest |
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BEWDLEY |
| Country: |
England |
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Grid Reference: 378654, 275334 (Easting, Northing)
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01 Feb 2018 |
