Old Idsall House
OLD IDSALL HOUSE, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1053623
- Date first listed:
- 26-May-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Old Idsall House
- Statutory Address:
- OLD IDSALL HOUSE, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1053623
- Date first listed:
- 26-May-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Old Idsall House
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD IDSALL HOUSE, CHURCH STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- OLD IDSALL HOUSE, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Shifnal
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 74745 07514
Details
SJ 7407-7507 SHIFNAL C.P. CHURCH STREET (North-West side)
10/27 Old Idsall House. 26/5/55
GV II
House. Late C16 with C18 alterations and additions. Timber framed with close studding and rendered infill panels, later painted brick additions including underbuilding to South-West, and old tile roof with partial catslide over outshut to rear. One framed bay, 2 framed bay projecting cross wing to left with late C18 addition to front, and projecting early C18 gabled wing to right. 2 storeys. First floor to South-West probably formerly jettied, gable to right with parapeted gable end; ridge stack off-centre to left, stack in angle of right-hand wing, end stack to right, and 2 end stacks to left-hand cross wing. Projecting first floor 3-light C19 casement to right, ground floor 3-light casement to right, and C20 boarded door to left. Right-hand wing with one flush-framed segmental headed glazing bar sash on each floor, and lean-to to left with one segmental headed 3-light casement in left-hand return front; left-hand cross wing with one glazing bar sash on each floor, and right-hand return front with glazing bar sash on each floor, that below with segmental head. South-West front: 3 blocked first floor windows. First floor glazing bar sash off-centre to left, and 2-light leaded casement to far left; 2 ground floor C20 flat-topped canted bays flanking C20 half glazed door off-centre to left. Interior: probably C17 wainscot panelling in ground floor room, N.Pevsner, B.O.E. Shropshire, p.245.
Listing NGR: SJ7474207517
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 255244
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Shropshire, (1958), 245
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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