Description

REDDITCH B PROSPECT HILL (west side)
SP 0467 NW Town Centre

12/140 The Red House
10.4.54

- II

House, now offices. Late C18 with mid-C19 and mid-C20 alterations. Red
brick with shallow-pitched hipped slate roof, deep boarded eaves and brick
stacks. Three storeys with sill band to first floor windows and string course
defining frieze at front. Five bays; the central bay breaks forward slightly;
windows have gauged flat heads; 12-pane sashes on ground and first floor, 6-pane
sashes on second floor. Central entrance has an open pediment, engaged Doric
columns, panelled reveals and C20 door with barred segmental fanlight.
]interior: original ceiling mouldings and woodwork appears largely intact
on ground floor. Open well staircase with moulded. handrail. A single-bay
wing, lower in height, adjoins to right; it has no sill band or string course
but the fenestration is similar apart from the first floor window opening
which appears to have been lengthened to accommodate a 15-pane sash.

Listing NGR: SP0413367832

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26632021

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Recommended Books

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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)