121-124 Abbey Foregate and garden walls
121-124, Abbey Foregate
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246326
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1953
- List Entry Name:
- 121-124 Abbey Foregate and garden walls
- Statutory Address:
- 121-124, Abbey Foregate
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246326
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1953
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Nov-1995
- List Entry Name:
- 121-124 Abbey Foregate and garden walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- 121-124, Abbey Foregate
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:
- 121-124, 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 50490 12208
Details
SJ5012SW
653-1/17/39
SHREWSBURY
ABBEY FOREGATE (North side)
Nos.121-124 (Consecutive) and garden walls
(Formerly Listed as: ABBEY FOREGATE (North side) Nos.121-124 (Consecutive))
10/01/53
GV
II
Terrace of four dwellings. c1820. Ashlar faced, with Welsh slate roof. Central six window range, two storeys and attic, flanked by two storey, four window range each side. Symmetrically planned, with doorways off-centre in flanking blocks, and outer doorways in central range. Six-panelled doors with traceried overlights in simple moulded architraves. Windows are twelve-pane sashes, with longer fifteen-pane sashes in outer first-floor windows of flanking blocks. Flat-arched heads incised in ashlar, and rectangular stuccoed heads in upper windows of left-hand block. Single wood blind canopy to one upper window of right-hand block. Moulded stone cornice and parapet, the attic storey of the central range rising above this, with six-pane sash windows. Axial stacks towards the rear.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: adjoining the houses, garden wall defines the front line of the plot and pathways giving access to each unit. Ashlar blocks as plinth, then pierced balustrading, with small domed caps on angle piers. Solid double curved block links with low stone walls each side of pathways. No.122 listed 30.5.69.
Listing NGR: SJ5049012208
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 454945
- 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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