16 AND 18, MARKET SQUARE
16 AND 18, MARKET SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1054557
- Date first listed:
- 02-Jan-1985
- List Entry Name:
- 16 AND 18, MARKET SQUARE
- Statutory Address:
- 16 AND 18, MARKET SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1054557
- Date first listed:
- 02-Jan-1985
- List Entry Name:
- 16 AND 18, MARKET SQUARE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 16 AND 18, MARKET SQUARE
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:
- 16 AND 18, MARKET SQUARE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bishop's Castle
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 32349 88991
Details
SO 3288 BISHOP'S CASTLE C.P. MARKET SQUARE (north- west side) 12/64 Nos. 16 and 18 -
GV II
Pair of houses, now 2 shops with flats. Circa 1800. Red brick (English bond) with C20 interlocking concrete-tile roof to left and corrugated asbestos roof to right. 3 storeys. Plinth, dentil brick eaves cornice, central ridge stack and semi-integral end stack to right. 4 bays to first and second floors; segmental-headed glazing bar sashes, replaced in 2 right-hand bays with C20 casements; ground floor glazing bar sash off-centre to right; complete early-C19 shop front to right with small- paned flat-bow shop window to right, 6 flush-panelled door to left (centre panels glazed) with flush-panelled reveals, pilastered surround, frieze, and moulded cornice; mid- to late-C19 shop front to left with 2 plate glass windows flanking central half-glazed door, pilastered surround, fascia and bracketed hood; half-glazed C20 door off-centre to left with flanking unfluted half columns and flat hood; central boarded passageway door with segmental head. Included because of complete early-C19 shop front, and for group value.
Listing NGR: SO3234988991
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 256974
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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