Description

PERSHORE

SO9445 HIGH STREET
648-1/5/113 (East side)
11/02/65 No.5
Midland Bank
(Formerly Listed as:
HIGH STREET
(East side)
Midland Bank)

GV II

House now bank. C18 partly remodelled C20. Red brick in
Flemish bond with stone dressings, rusticated stucco ground
floor and quoins. High brick and stone parapet has stone
coping with deep moulded eaves cornice concealing plain tile
roof; 2 lateral brick stacks.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and cellar; 5-window range. Windows on 1st
and 2nd floors have: 6/6 sashes; segmental-headed moulded
architraves; deep, gauged brick, segmental arches with heavy
carved keystones; stone sills; 2nd-floor windows smaller. On
ground floor: four boxed 9/9 sashes with large moulded
pseudo-keystones and deeper reveals; doorcase on left with
decorative overlight and C20 door; deep moulded plinth with
cellar grilles. Left return, part rendered and part painted,
has segmental-headed sash windows with sills and wooden
keystones. Rear has double-depth wing.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: formerly partly occupied by bank and partly a
draper's business.
Old photograph shows present parapet is reduced by 2 courses.
(BoE: Pevsner N: Worcestershire: Harmondsworth: 1968-: 243; ).

Listing NGR: SO9499645752

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26666724

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Recommended Books

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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]