52 and 53 Abbey Foregate and area walls and railings

52 and 53, Abbey Foregate

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1246196
Date first listed:: 19-Sep-1972
List Entry Name:: 52 and 53 Abbey Foregate and area walls and railings
Statutory Address:: 52 and 53, Abbey Foregate

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1246196
Date first listed:: 19-Sep-1972
List Entry Name:: 52 and 53 Abbey Foregate and area walls and railings
Statutory Address 1:: 52 and 53, Abbey Foregate

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:: 52 and 53, Abbey Foregate

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

District:: Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Shrewsbury
National Grid Reference:: SJ 50001 12433

Details

SJ 5012 SW 653-1/17/18

SHREWSBURY ABBEY FOREGATE (north side), Nos. 52 and 53 and area walls and railings

19/09/72

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II Pair of houses. Mid C19. Brick with Welsh slate roof. Two storeys with attic dormers raised over basement. Three window range. Two window range to right, with wide coped gable and central doorways up steps. Left-hand door with chamfered lattice work panelling and part-glazing in two-centred archway. Right-hand eight-panelled door in three-centred archway. Projecting sash windows with wood mullions and transoms to each side. Blind window over door, sash with mullion and transom to right, and canted oriel window to the left. Four-pane sashes to attic.

Additional narrower range to left with wide canted bay window to ground floor and basement, sash window with wood mullion and transom above, and small dormer in the roof. Gable and axial stacks.

SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: cast-iron railings and stone piers to steps and basement area, and massive coursed and squared stone blocks to area wall.

Listing NGR: SJ5000412432

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

Legacy System number:: 454658
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.