The Salopian Star
THE SALOPIAN STAR, 21, STAFFORD STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1177012
- Date first listed:
- 07-May-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Salopian Star
- Statutory Address:
- THE SALOPIAN STAR, 21, STAFFORD STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1177012
- Date first listed:
- 07-May-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 05-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Salopian Star
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE SALOPIAN STAR, 21, STAFFORD 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:
- THE SALOPIAN STAR, 21, STAFFORD 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:
- SJ6761134271
Details
This List entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 24/09/2018
SJ 6634-6734; 13/87
MARKET DRAYTON C.P.,
STAFFORD STREET
(north-west side),
No. 21 (The Salopian Star)
(Formerly listed as Star Hotel; previously listed as: Old Star Hotel)
07.05.52
GV
II
House, now inn. Dated 1669. Late C19 or early C20 alterations.
Timber framed with plastered and painted brick infill, pebbledashed
to right-hand return front. Painted dressed sandstone and later
brick plinth. C19 planted timbers to front and underbuilt in painted
brick to right. Plain tile roofs. Framing: small square panels
(five from sole plate to wall plate ) with long straight tension braces.
First-floor panels to front with diagonal struts forming lozenge patterns,
and slightly jettied attic with hewn bracket to left (bressumer obscured
by planted timber),tier of square quatrefoil panels beneath eaves,
and gables with tiers of cusped small square panels and cusped curved
v-struts. L-plan; 2 + 2 framed bays. Two storeys and attic over
basement with 2-storey wing at rear. Integral brick end stack to
left, integral brick lateral stack to right and external brick end
stack to rear. Two-window front; C19 three-light wooden casements,
ground-floor lights with straight-sided arched heads. Two-light
segmental-headed basement openings. C17 two-storey timber framed
gabled porch off-centre to right with tie-beam dated: "IB (or IE)
1669", cusped v-struts in gable, 2-light first-floor wooden casements
to each side, and open ground floor with two posts, curved brackets
and pair of C19 two-panelled doors with rectangular overlights.
Late C19 or early C20 stone steps (in two flights) with brick wall to
front. Carriageway to left-hand with C19 pilastered surround and
double-canted sign above. Tie-beam truss in left-hand gable end
with two collars and queen struts. Pair of stepped timber-framed gables
at rear; each has collar and tie-beam truss with queen struts and
v-struts. Early to mid-C19 two-storey brick addition in angle at
rear with 16-pane glazing bar sashes and integral brick lateral stack.
Interior only partly inspected. Rear wing has pair of ovolo-moulded
ceiling beams with ogee stops.
Listing NGR: SJ6761134271
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 260392
- 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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