29, BAILEY STREET

29, BAILEY STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1176028
Date first listed:
10-Sept-1951
List Entry Name:
29, BAILEY STREET
Statutory Address:
29, BAILEY STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1176028
Date first listed:
10-Sept-1951
List Entry Name:
29, BAILEY STREET
Statutory Address 1:
29, BAILEY 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.

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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:
29, BAILEY STREET

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 29072 29704

Details

SJ 2929 NW OSWESTRY C.P. BAILEY STREET (west side) 14/18 No. 29 10.9.51 GV II* House, now shop and restaurant. Early C17 with later additions and alterations. Timber framed with plaster infill, slate roof. 2 storeys and attics; 3 gables, left projecting over passageway; framing: survives to first floor, decorative herringbone work forming lozenge shapes with incised quatrefoils and trefoils to middle rail, further decorative carving to rail above window of left gable; cusped fretwork bargeboards and pointed finial to gables probably C19; passageway to left has close studding with long straight tension brace to right wall, heavy chamfered beams and flat joists with dragon beam to front connecting with rail which has mortice holes for vertical posts; mid-C19 fenestration to first floor and attic, 3-light horizontal sliding sash to each gable on first floor and narrow pointed window with Gothic glazing above, C20 shopfronts below; red brick stack in roof slope behind ridge to right and internal end stack to left, also behind ridge. 2-storey rendered range to rear, possibly concealing timber frame, has 2 ridge stacks. Spur stones to passageway. Interior: first floor has timber frame exposed, square panels with straight tension braces and herringbone decoration forming lozenge patterens; inserted chamfered cross-beam ceiling. Graded II* as a good example of a substantial early C17 town house.

Listing NGR: SJ2907129706

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
255482
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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