The Old House

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

SHREWSBURY

SJ4812SE CANONBURY 653-1/14/141 (North side) The Old House

II

House. Mid C19. Red brick with yellow brick dressings and Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys with attic and basement. 2-window range with side entrance. Main elevation faces the river: wide gable to the right with slightly projecting 3-light wood mullioned and transomed window with pedimented wood head on principal floor, and mullioned and transomed oriel window alongside. 2-light casement windows on upper floor, with stilted arched yellow brick hoodmoulds. Ornate fretted barge-boards to gables, the eaves projecting on wood brackets. Elevation to Canonbury has wide gable to left with 2-storeyed lean-to porch on inner face. Round-arched doorway with 6-panelled door. Stilted arched windows above. In the gable over the porch, 3-light window with Gothick traceried lights and shafts as mullions. Wide 2-light mullioned and transomed stair window in return gable elevation, and 2-light mullioned and transomed windows to its right on each floor. End wall stacks.

Listing NGR: SJ4871612001

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/2002 IOE Records taken by Derek Taylor; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Mr Derek Taylor. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project