Part Two: Centres and Site Allocations (Regulation 19)

Comment

Representation ID: 1029

Received: 27/11/2024

Respondent: CPRE Worcestershire

DLP.S4 The following should be added to the list of local landmarks as being significant buildings, though some are not very visible, due to the narrow width of the High Street:

LLP12 Talbot Hotel. This consists of at least two buildings:
• The original Talbot Inn, which was formerly a coaching inn and the leading hostelry of Stourbridge.
This is a timber-framed building and hence potentially medieval.
• The brick house (now rendered), extending from the previous item across Victora Passage (which was formerly its carriage entrance. This was probably built by the leading ironmaster Richard Foley (1580-1657) after he moved from Dudley to Stourbridge, in the 1620s or 1630s.

LLP13 Old Post Office, probably a Victorian building. If not locally listed, this should be. I do not know if this belongs to Royal Mail or the Post Office, but in either case changes to these bodies might lead to redevelopment proposals. However, it is perhaps only the High Street façade that needs to be preserved. LLP14 Corner site and northern frontage of Foster Street, formerly a wine merchant, the corner site now being occupied by West Bromwich Building Society.
LLP15 Former Barclays Bank, 81 High Street. This appears to be a Georgian house, whose origin, I have failed to discover. Foster Street was probably originally a carriage entrance for this, widened in the 1930s. However, only the façade is old, the interior having been rebuilt from the ground up in the 1980s.

These are significant buildings within the Town Centre that contribute significantly to its character. They may differ from the items currently mentioned in the Plan, important buildings within the town centre, rather than ones viewed from outside it.