NUMBERS 32 AND 34 (TOWNSEND HOUSE)

32 GREAT HALES STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1176833
Date first listed:: 04-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 32 AND 34 (TOWNSEND HOUSE)
Statutory Address:: 32 GREAT HALES STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1176833
Date first listed:: 04-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 32 AND 34 (TOWNSEND HOUSE)
Statutory Address 1:: 32 GREAT HALES STREET
Statutory Address 2:: TOWNSEND HOUSE, 34, GREAT HALES STREET

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 32 GREAT HALES STREET
Statutory Address:: TOWNSEND HOUSE, 34, GREAT HALES STREET

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

District:: Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Market Drayton
National Grid Reference:: SJ6774834086

Details

SJ 6634-6734; 13/50

MARKET DRAYTON C.P., GREAT HALES STREET (south side), Nos. 32 and 34 (Townsend House)

II

House, now divided. Probably C15 with alterations and additions of c.1600, C18 alterations and late C19 addition. Remodelled c.1906-7. Timber-framed with plastered infill on a dressed red sandstone plinth; rendered and partly rebuilt and extended in brick at rear. Front and right-hand gable end refaced and partly rebuilt in red brick with blue brick plinth and yellow/grey sandstone ashlar dressings. Plain tile roofs. Framing: close studding with long straight tension braces. Jettied first floor with billet-ornamented bressumer. H- plan. Two probably C15 framed bays with c.1600 cross wings of two framed bays and further additions to front and back. Two storeys over basement. Pierced barge boards with finial. Pair of brick ridge stacks, off- centre to right and to left-hand cross wing; two further brick stacks at rear. Four gables to front. 3:2:1:1 windows; plate-glass sashes with stone cills and lintels. Full-height canted bay to left. Reused C16 or C17 nail-studded boarded door between second and third windows from right with strap hinges. Moulded C17 architrave and c.1906-7 round-arched surround with boarded tympanum. Left-hand return front: exposed timber framing. Small 2-light first-floor window and evidence of blocked former windows. Lean-to porch and addition to left. Right- hand gable end: 2-light attic window, ground-floor plate-glass sash to left and glazed door to right with gabled porch. Rear: later infill between gabled cross wings, that to left a C20 rebuilding of a C17 timber-framed wing and that to right is C18 or C19, of one storey and has a canted bay with glazing bar sashes. Late C19 two-storey brick wing to south- west.

INTERIOR: substantial surviving timber frame. Central 2- bay hall range has chamfered posts with large jowls, cambered tie beams, central collar and tie-beam truss with queen struts, and curved wind braces. Cross wings with purlins (some encased in plaster), straight wind braces, and framed cross walls. Left-hand cross wing with close- studded gable end (visible internally). Tension brace visible in front wall of central range. Probable former external jetties to inner faces of cross wings at front, that to left with billet-ornamented bressumer (see left-hand return front) and both with brackets. Central ground- floor-wall: probably inserted C17 ceiling with large ovolo-moulded beams and chamfered joists with various stops. Staircase to left, probably moved here in early C20, but reusing old oak treads and with square-panelled framed side wall. Left-hand ground-floor front room: moulded stone cornice above fireplace. Cased beams. Left-hand ground- floor rear room (kitchen): pair of deep-chamfered beams and chamfered and stopped joists. Chamfered wall plate and bracket. Large blocked fireplace with wooden lintel. Pointed-arched doorway to hall with chamfered reveals. C16 or C17 nail-studded back door (possibly relocated) with strap hinges and moulded surround with pendant to segmental head. C18 rear wing: early C18 fireplace with lugged architrave, marble inner surround, pulvinated frieze and marbled dentil cornice. 6-panelled door with L-hinges. Ground-floor room to C17 rear wing: deep-chamfered beam with ogee stops. C17 panelling, some with lozenge ornament. C17 panelled door with L-hinges. Small ground-floor room to right of hall: small C18 fireplace with cast-iron basket grate. Right-hand ground- floor rooms: ovolo-moulded beams. Open fireplace (reduced in width by later inserted wall) with chamfered wooden lintel and plaster frieze above with four (one almost obscured) dragons, central rose and moulded top edge. First-floor left-hand front room: early C18 wooden fireplace with moulded architrave, pulvinated frieze and moulded cornice. Glass above door inscribed and dated 1755, 1757 and 1758, and signed Richard Townsend. First-floor left-hand rear room: early C18 wooden fireplace with lugged moulded architrave, frieze, moulded cornice and cast-iron basket grate. Old floorboards throughout. The house has a complex building history. It appears that the front wall of the hall range has been brought forward (probably in the C17) flush with the cross wings (see framing in front wall internally). This would explain the existence of what appear to be former external jetties on the inner faces of the cross wall. It is also possible that the small gable on the front marks the position of a former 2-storey porch, later encased. Another explanation for the plan is that the central core was formerly a 2-bay (or larger) aisled hall, but evidence for this was not noted at the time of survey (June 1986).

Listing NGR: SJ6774834086

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Legacy System:: LBS

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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.