1-4 Church Terrace
1-4, Church Terrace
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1054254
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jan-1952
- List Entry Name:
- 1-4 Church Terrace
- Statutory Address:
- 1-4, Church Terrace
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1054254
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jan-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 02-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- 1-4 Church Terrace
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1-4, Church Terrace
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:
- 1-4, Church Terrace
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Martin's
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 32199 36328
Details
SJ 33 NW
2/10
ST MARTIN'S CP
CHURCH TERRACE
Nos 1-4 (inclusive)
(formerly listed as The Almshouses, St Martin's)
19.01.52
GV
II
Almshouses. Dated 1698, altered 1810 with later repairs and additions. Red brick (mixed bond) with stone angle quoins and moulded eaves cornice carried up around central projecting pediment; hipped graded slate roof.
Formerly seven dwellings, now divided into four cottages. Single storey. Symmetrical fenestration: C20 casements (replacing C19 latticed windows) with C18 or early C19 gauged heads flanking paired entrances to left and right. Similar arrangement of windows to either side of entrance to pediment with doorways and adjoining windows in angles to left and right. Entrances all have C20 nail-studded doors and C19 rectangular overlights. Ridge stacks rebuilt in C19 red brick to left and right of pediment and integral end stacks. Datestone to pediment inscribed 'This School for the Education / of twelve poor Female Children / in the Doctrines of the Established Church / was instituted A.D. 1810 / By / Charlotte Vicountess Dungannon / Sit Deo Gloria.'
Another to right end wall reads 'These Alms Houses / for the Maintenance of Six Poor Women / were founded A.D. 1698 / by the Rt. Hon.ble Sir JOHN TREVOR Kt. / of BRYNKINALT / Speaker of the House of Commons and / Master of the Rolls during the Reigns / of King William III.rd and Queen Anne. / Deus nobis hac otia fecit.'
Listing NGR: SJ3218436328
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 255722
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Shropshire, (1958), 239
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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