Abbey Guest House, Remains
ABBEY GUEST HOUSE, REMAINS, ABBEY FOREGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1246394
- Date first listed:
- 30-May-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Abbey Guest House, Remains
- Statutory Address:
- ABBEY GUEST HOUSE, REMAINS, ABBEY FOREGATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1246394
- Date first listed:
- 30-May-1969
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Nov-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Abbey Guest House, Remains
- Statutory Address 1:
- ABBEY GUEST HOUSE, REMAINS, 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:
- ABBEY GUEST HOUSE, REMAINS, 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 49768 12409
Details
SHREWSBURY
SJ4912SE ABBEY FOREGATE 653-1/16/76 (South side) 30/05/69 Abbey Guest House, remains (Formerly Listed as: ABBEY FOREGATE (South side) Remains of Ancient Abbey Guesthouse & Mill in Messrs B Edwards' Timber Yard)
GV II*
Guest house or gate house of Shrewsbury Abbey, later used as part of timber yard. Late C13. Coursed and squared red sandstone extended in brick with plain tiled roof. 2 storeys, 3-bay plan, with 2 gable walls and part of side walls of original structure surviving. Gable walls each have remains of chamfered arched window. North elevation largely as rebuilt to serve wood yard, with inserted double doors and workshop windows on each floor, and loading door at upper level. Lower added wing projecting from this elevation is built against the single surviving wall of another abbey structure. This is a continuation of the west wall of the main building, buttressed, and with traces of the springing for a vaulted ceiling towards the west. This west wall may incorporate an earlier precinct wall, and may represent an original watergate. (West Midlands Archaeology: Baker N).
Listing NGR: SJ4976412409
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 455056
- 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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