This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.
SHREWSBURY
SJ4912NW ST MARY'S PLACE 653-1/11/580 (South East side) 10/01/53 No.10 Drapers Hall and attached raised pavement and railings (Formerly Listed as: ST MARY'S PLACE (South side) No.10)
GV II*
House, incorporating drapers' guild hall. Datable to 1560 from documentary sources, some framing renewed early C20. Timber-framed with plain tiled roof. 3 storeys, 2-window range, with advanced block to right over doorway. Framed with close studding with twisted shafts superimposed on the vertical elements. Right-hand bay has 4-centred arched doorway to ground floor, giving access to passage, with decorative spandrels and a 12-pane sash window alongside. Leaded 3-light mullioned and transomed oriel window above, and 4-light leaded mullioned and transomed window over.
Left-hand gable bay has ogee braces to ground floor, and two 24-pane sash windows. Moulded bressumer to slightly jettied upper storey, which has 6-light mullioned and transomed window with leaded upper lights. Quatrefoil panelling beneath the window. Decorative timberwork in the gable, with lozenge pattern around king post, and barge-boards enriched with vine scrolls, and finial. Attached to front wall is a section of raised pavement with surrounding low brick and stone wall surmounted by railings with spearhead finials. (Smith JT: Shrewsbury: Topography and Domestic Architecture to the mid C17: 1953-).
Listing NGR: SJ4932612548
This is part of the Series: IOE01/0092 IOE Records taken by Cyril Baldwin; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England
© Mr Cyril Baldwin. Source: Historic England Archive
This photograph was taken for the Images of England project
Photographer: Baldwin, Cyril
Rights Holder: Baldwin, Cyril
Brick, Stone, Tile, Timber, Medieval Timber Framed House, Tudor Monument (By Form), Elizabethan Timber Framed Building, House, Domestic, Dwelling, Guildhall, Commercial, Civil, Meeting Hall, Public Building, Railings, Barrier
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