Shropshire House

Shropshire House, 16, Shrewsbury Street, Prees, SY13 2DH

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1264622
Date first listed:: 16-Sep-1987
List Entry Name:: Shropshire House
Statutory Address:: Shropshire House, 16, Shrewsbury Street, Prees, SY13 2DH

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1264622
Date first listed:: 16-Sep-1987
List Entry Name:: Shropshire House
Statutory Address 1:: Shropshire House, 16, Shrewsbury Street, Prees, SY13 2DH

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Shropshire House, 16, Shrewsbury Street, Prees, SY13 2DH

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Prees
National Grid Reference:: SJ 55322 33495

Details

This List entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 05/07/2019

SJ 5433-5533 14/104

PREES CP SHREWSBURY STREET (west side), No 16, Shropshire House

(Formerly listed as Shropshire House, SHREWSBURY STREET, previously listed as Shropshire House (including Prees Post Office))

GV II House. Late C18 refronting of C17 building; later additions and alterations. Rendered timber frame clad in C18 red brick to front; slate roof. Original house of three framed bays with eaves raised and clad in brick to front in late C18. Two storeys and attic with dentilled eaves cornice; three window front, three-light C19 segmental-headed casements with late C19 gabled eaves dormers directly above. Main entrance between first and second windows from left through plain pilastered doorcase with four-panel door (top panels now glazed); similar entrance to far right. Red brick ridge stack between second and third windows from left and integral end stack to left.

INTERIOR: timber frame (square panels) exposed to original back wall on ground floor, fragmentarily to cross-wall to right of entrance and to right gable end on first floor. Single-purlin roof in three bays with collar and tie-beam trusses visible in attic. Gabled range at right-angles to rear, rebuilt late C20 is not of special architectural interest.

Listing NGR: SJ5532233495

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Legacy System number:: 427297
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.