Shrewsbury School, Oldham's Hall
SHREWSBURY SCHOOL, OLDHAM'S HALL, ASHTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246451
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Shrewsbury School, Oldham's Hall
- Statutory Address:
- SHREWSBURY SCHOOL, OLDHAM'S HALL, ASHTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246451
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Shrewsbury School, Oldham's Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHREWSBURY SCHOOL, OLDHAM'S HALL, ASHTON ROAD
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:
- SHREWSBURY SCHOOL, OLDHAM'S HALL, ASHTON ROAD
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 48357 12190
Details
SHREWSBURY
SJ41SE ASHTON ROAD 653-1/4/84 (North West side) Shrewsbury School, Oldham's Hall
GV II
School house. 1911. By WA Forsyth. Brick with plain tiled roof. Two-and-a-half storeys, 12-window range asymmetrically planned. Simplified domestic Gothic style. Outer gabled wings advanced and paired off-central gables. Main entrance in return elevation of right-hand wing, subsidiary entrance towards centre. Advanced half-hipped gable to left, with tall wood mullioned and transomed window on each floor. 2-light mullioned and transomed windows in narrow range to left, and 3 tall dormers cut through the eaves line over. Advanced paired gables beyond, with stressed angle pilasters and mullioned and transomed windows of 2, 3 and 4 lights. Date on leaded rainwater head. Long range of 4 mullioned and transomed windows beyond, with 4 hipped dormer windows in the roof. Doorway in angle with advanced gable, moulded stone architrave with lunette over. Canted bay window with stone mullioned windows alongside. End gable with full-height canted bay window with stone mullioned and transomed windows and 3-light casement in gable apex above. Main entrance in side of this gable, with bolection-moulded architrave. Axial and end wall stacks, the end wall stacks linked to the roof by tiled gablets. A carefully articulated composition, exhibiting many of the best characteristics of Edwardian Free Style and Domestic Revival architecture.
Listing NGR: SJ4835712190
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 455077
- 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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