Ross-on-Wye

12 & 13 Brookend Street

29^th January '06

There have been shops on this site for many years. The most recent shops here were Barry Cotton's Antiques and then Fritz Fryer Decorative Antique Lighting, before it moved to Station Street. It has become a run down shop and is up for development.

The shop has been empty for a while now and is up for sale as a development property.

12 & 13 Brookend Street
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The insides of the two shops has become quite untidy.

Inside 12 Brookend Street
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Inside 13 Brookend Street
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The passage way down beside the shops has become quite overgrown.

The passage beside the shops (Click for a larger image)

5^th March '06

The front of the alley has been borded up and it looks like work is about to start.

23^rd March '06

Scaffold has been erected over the front of the building to allow easier access to the frontage.

10^th April '06

The inside has started to be redeveloped.

Inside 12 Brookend Street
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Inside 13 Brookend Street
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15^th June '06

The frontage has now been tidied and painted.

18^th June '06

The inside of the building has been painted and looks much tidier.

25^th September '06

The shop has now been completed and is now 'The Nesting Place' with three flats above it. The Nesting Place sells carpets, bedding and other household furnishings.

Overall the development has made this end of Brookend Street much tidier and much more interesting.

28^th October '07

The passageway down the side of the shop has had gates added and the frontage has been finished off.

Millbrook House

Millbrook House was built by Edward Prichard and the Prichard family were Quakers and well to-do tanners. Their descendants lived there for many years and Dr. James Cowles Prichard (1786-1848) was born there. Dr. James Cowles Prichard qualified as a doctor in 1810 and went on to be an internationally renowned doctor of diseases of the nervous system.

Millbrook House has been empty for many years until in 2009 it came up for sale and planning permission has been sought (SE093257/F & DMSE/093257/F) to convert it from single detached residential dwelling to create 4 no. residential apartments.