6, THE CROSS, 4, THE CROSS

4, THE CROSS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1054298
Date first listed:: 10-Sep-1951
List Entry Name:: 6, THE CROSS, 4, THE CROSS
Statutory Address:: 4, THE CROSS

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Date:: 2006-04-14
Reference:: IOE01/15392/08
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1054298
Date first listed:: 10-Sep-1951
Date of most recent amendment:: 15-May-1986
List Entry Name:: 6, THE CROSS, 4, THE CROSS
Statutory Address 1:: 4, THE CROSS
Statutory Address 2:: 6, THE CROSS

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.

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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:: 4, THE CROSS
Statutory Address:: 6, THE CROSS

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

District:: Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Oswestry
National Grid Reference:: SJ 29045 29610

Details

SJ 2929 NW OSWESTRY C.P. THE CROSS (north-west side)

14/64 Nos. 4 and 6 10.9.51 (No 6 only) GV II

Bank, now building society. 1905-6 by Shayler and Ridge. Sandstone ashlar, machine tile roof with coped verges to gables. Jacobean style. 3 storeys; 3-light mullion windows with segmental centre lights to second floor, prominent oriels to first floor also of 3 lights have moulded cornices and grotesque faces and floral decoration to undersides, similar 3-light windows to ground floor have pilastered surrounds with figural decoration to capitals; 3 shaped gables with miniature scrolled pediments and round angle turret to right, this has Renaissance-style ornamentation to top and bronze-capped dome with pointed finial; original entrance (now infilled) below with scalloped bracketed hood, present entrance to left inserted in window with late C20 panelled doors; 3 downpipes to front. Included as a well detailed example in a prominent situtation. B.O.E. p. 224.

Listing NGR: SJ2905129614

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Legacy System number:: 255535
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Shropshire, (1958), 224

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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.