Acton Burnell Stores

ACTON BURNELL STORES

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1055573
Date first listed:
14-May-1986
List Entry Name:
Acton Burnell Stores
Statutory Address:
ACTON BURNELL STORES
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1055573
Date first listed:
14-May-1986
List Entry Name:
Acton Burnell Stores
Statutory Address 1:
ACTON BURNELL STORES

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
ACTON BURNELL STORES

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

District:
Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Acton Burnell
National Grid Reference:
SJ 53047 02027

Details

ACTON BURNELL C.P. ACTON BURNELL SJ 50 SW 6/16 Acton Burnell Stores - GV II Pair of houses, latterly inn, now house, shop and tea room. Early C19. Red brick on coursed rubble plinth, partly rendered to right; plain tile roofs. L-plan with gabled wing projecting at right-angles to right. 2 storeys and attic. Plinth, dentil brick eaves cornice (bricks on edge), and parapeted gable end to left; gabled roof dormer off-centre to left with 3-light casement, central roof-light; truncated brick ridge stack off-centre to right, and external brick end stacks, that to left truncated. 4:1 bays; glazing bar sashes with slightly segmental heads, some with horns; first-floor blind window in second bay from left and ground- floor casement in left-hand bay; half-glazed panelled door in second bay from left; mid- to late C19 shop front in right-hand wing with 2- light shop window to right,half-glazed door to left, and pilastered surround. Until the 1870s this building was The Stag's Head Inn, first mentioned in 1823. V.C.H., Vol. VIII, p.6.

Listing NGR: SJ5304702027

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Legacy System number:
259668
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Shropshire, (1908), 6

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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© Crown copyright [and database rights] 2026. OS AC0000815036. All rights reserved. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100024900.© British Crown and SeaZone Solutions Limited 2026. All rights reserved. Licence number 102006.006.

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