LONG MEADOW PEAR TREE COTTAGE

127A AND 127B, ABBEY FORGATE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1246382
Date first listed:: 19-Sep-1972
List Entry Name:: LONG MEADOW PEAR TREE COTTAGE
Statutory Address:: 127A AND 127B, ABBEY FORGATE

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Date:: 2002-12-05
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1246382
Date first listed:: 19-Sep-1972
Date of most recent amendment:: 17-Nov-1995
List Entry Name:: LONG MEADOW PEAR TREE COTTAGE
Statutory Address 1:: 127A AND 127B, ABBEY FORGATE
Statutory Address 2:: LONG MEADOW, 127A, ABBEY FORGATE
Statutory Address 3:: PEAR TREE COTTAGE, 127B, ABBEY FORGATE

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:: 127A AND 127B, ABBEY FORGATE
Statutory Address:: LONG MEADOW, 127A, ABBEY FORGATE
Statutory Address:: PEAR TREE COTTAGE, 127B, ABBEY FORGATE

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 50491 12083

Details

SHREWSBURY

SJ5012SW ABBEY FOREGATE 653-1/17/40 (South side) 19/09/72 Nos.127A AND 127B Long Meadow (127A) and Pear Tree Cottage (127B) (Formerly Listed as: ABBEY FOREGATE (South side) Long Meadow)

II

Barn, now dwelling, and cottage. Largely later C18, but possibly incorporating timbers from an earlier building on the site. Barn converted in 1948. Timber-framed with brick plinth and panel infill, and brick, with plain tiled roof. Long Meadow, the former barn, is 2 storeys, framed in square panels for 11 bays with high brick plinth. Small section of wall to rear renewed in brick, probably late C19. To the right, small store of 4 bays, the timber encased in brick on the front elevation. Doorway to left in small gabled porch, with Mannerist posts said to be taken from a house in Dogpole. Inserted metal-framed windows on each floor. Cross vents in right hand section, and in cross wall dividing what is now the house from the storage bays beyond. Loft door in this right hand section. Queen post roof construction internally. Pear Tree Cottage forms a continuation of the barn range to the left. Single casement window in front elevation, the doorway to the left of the gable wall, with casement window alongside and above, with single ring cambered heads. Blind window in apex of coped gable.

Listing NGR: SJ5049112083

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Legacy System number:: 454946
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.