Located in Commercial Road, this was Hereford’s first steel-framed building and was built as a furniture warehouse for Greenland’s, a well-known local firm. In the early 1980's, I & J Brown Ltd, Furniture Wholesalers, occupied the property and remained there until the summer of 1999.

Excavations during archaeological monitoring at the rear of this building discovered medieval rubbish pits containing domestic waste including pottery and quantities of animal bone. 

By the mid 19th century Hereford was getting fairly crowded. Behind these buildings were squeezed two rows of four cottages – Hop Pole Place and Hop Bine Place – demolished in 2000. history

The Litten Tree: the site in 1886

Hop Bine Place was constructed by early 1871 as a row of four cottages for let to working class families.  In the census of that year (April 2nd) only numbers 1 and 4 were occupied, numbers 2 and 3 being still empty.  In the 1881 census, married couples with children occupied each cottage.

Each two up/two down cottage measured 7m by 4m.  In 1903 the rent of each cottage in was four shillings per week while that of a cottage in the older Hop Pole Place was three shillings and threepence.  Each row of cottages had a shared washhouse and two shared WCs.