Ashton Cottage
29-43, WELSH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1054560
- Date first listed:
- 02-Jan-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Ashton Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- 29-43, WELSH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1054560
- Date first listed:
- 02-Jan-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Ashton Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- 29-43, WELSH STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- ASHTON COTTAGE, 27, WELSH 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:
- 29-43, WELSH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- ASHTON COTTAGE, 27, WELSH STREET
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:
- SO3218589064
Details
SO 3289 BISHOP'S CASTLE C.P. WELSH STREET (south-
west side)
11/74 No. 27 (Ashton Cottage)
- and Nos. 29-43 (odd)
GV II
Houses adapted as row of 9 railway workers' cottages. Probably C17,
heavily remodelled circa 1865. Rendered timber frame and slate roof
with break in eaves between Nos. 35 and 37, and fish-scale slates on
dormers. One storey and attic. 9 gabled semi-dormers with decorated
barge boards, finials and 2-light wooden casements; 4 ridge stacks
and semi-integral end stack to right. 9-window front; wooden 2-
light casements alternating with 4 pairs and one single boarded door
with pilastered surrounds, friezes and cornices. These cottages were
reputedly remodelled from earlier buildings to provide accommodation
for the workers of The Bishop's Castle Railway, opened in 1865.
Listing NGR: SO3218589064
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 256987
- 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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