NUMBERS 22-24 AND NUMBER 25 (THE CRESCENT) AND ADJOINING RAILINGS

22-25, TOWN WALLS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1270561
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1953
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 22-24 AND NUMBER 25 (THE CRESCENT) AND ADJOINING RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: 22-25, TOWN WALLS

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1270561
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1953
Date of most recent amendment:: 17-Nov-1995
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 22-24 AND NUMBER 25 (THE CRESCENT) AND ADJOINING RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: 22-25, TOWN WALLS
Statutory Address 2:: ADJOINING RAILINGS, TOWN WALLS
Statutory Address 3:: THE CRESCENT, 25, TOWN WALLS

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

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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:: 22-25, TOWN WALLS
Statutory Address:: ADJOINING RAILINGS, TOWN WALLS
Statutory Address:: THE CRESCENT, 25, TOWN WALLS

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

District:: Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Shrewsbury
National Grid Reference:: SJ 49058 12198

Details

SHREWSBURY

SJ4912SW TOWN WALLS 653-1/15/675 (South side) 10/01/53 Nos.22-25 (Consecutive) The Crescent (25) and adjoining railings

GV II

Terrace of 4 dwellings built on a shallow curve, some now in use as offices. c1790. Attributed to Joseph Bromfield, a local plasterer and architect. Brick with low pitched Welsh slate roof. 3 storeys over basement, each dwelling a 2-window range. Doorway of each unit to the left, with architrave recessed in shallow arch and 6-panelled doors with ornamental traceried fanlights. Ground-floor windows slightly recessed, with ornamental fanlight of doorways echoed in plasterwork over. Upper windows are 12-pane sashes with flat-arched brick heads. Parapet eaves cornice. End wall stacks. Cast-iron railings adjoin over basement area. Rear elevation has stone eaves parapet and advanced 4 central bays with brick pilasters. No.25 listed 30.5.69. (Colvin H: A Dictionary of British Architects: London: 1978-).

Listing NGR: SJ4905812198

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Legacy System number:: 458376
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Colvin, H M, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, (1978)

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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.