29, SAINT MARYS STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1178368
Date first listed:: 01-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:: 29, SAINT MARYS STREET
Statutory Address:: 29, SAINT MARYS STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1178368
Date first listed:: 01-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:: 29, SAINT MARYS STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 29, SAINT MARYS 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.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: 29, SAINT MARYS STREET

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

District:: Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Whitchurch Urban
National Grid Reference:: SJ 54209 41656

Details

WHITCHURCH URBAN C.P. SAINT MARY'S STREET SJ 5441 (north-east side) 8/116 No. 29 - GV II

House, now offices. Early to mid-C18, remodelled in the early C19. Rendered, probably over brick. Plain tile roof, with hip to rear wing. 2 storeys and attic. Moulded plinth, first-floor cill band, wide end pilaster strips (cut-back to left), moulded cornice with blocking course, and parapeted gable ends. Brick ridge stack off-centre to right and external lateral brick stack to left of rear wing. 3 dormers with boxed glazing bar sashes, segmental pediments, and slate-hung sides. 6 irregularly-spaced bays; glazing bar sashes with stone cills (12-pane except for right-hand ground floor sash with 16 panes) Recessed porch in third bay from left (altered in mid-C20) with chamfered reveals and 4- panelled door with side lights and margin-light overlight. Inserted doorway to left with chamfered reveals, and 4-panelled door with margin- light overlight. Interior: largely remodelled in the early C19. Segmental archway between entrance hall and staircase hall at rear, with pilasters and panelled soffit. Early C19 dog-leg staircase rising 2 floors, with landings, closed string, stick balusters, swept handrail and colunular newel post. Early C19 fittings throughout, including 6- panelled doors with moulded architraves, cased beams, dado and picture rails,and internal panelled window shutters. Some reused C17 or early C18 panelling in ground-floor cupboard. Ground-floor left-hand rear room with complete c.1930 Art Deco decoration including stencilled wall- paper, fireplace, etc. The house formerly had rustication to the ground floor, architraves to the ground-floor windows, an Ionic porch,and railed enclosures to the front, all, except for the architraves, probably dating from the early C19 remodelling, but all removed c.1920 when the foot path was widened. Whitchurch Area Archaeological Group, Whitchurch Remembered (1980), ills. 77 and 78.

Listing NGR: SJ5420941656

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Legacy System number:: 260672
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Whitchurch Remembered, (1980)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.