Castle Gates House
CASTLE GATES HOUSE, CASTLE GATES
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1246555
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Castle Gates House
- Statutory Address:
- CASTLE GATES HOUSE, CASTLE GATES
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1246555
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Castle Gates House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CASTLE GATES HOUSE, CASTLE GATES
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:
- CASTLE GATES HOUSE, CASTLE GATES
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 49414 12763
Details
SHREWSBURY
SJ4912NW CASTLE GATES 653-1/11/152 (East side) 10/01/53 Castle Gates House
II*
House. Late C16 with later modifications including major restoration c1912. Timber-framed with plain tiled roof. 2 storeys and attic, 3-window range. Framed in closed studding with middle rail, and moulded bressumer over ground floor, and 2 intermediate rails in the upper section, with some cusped quatrefoil panelling in the 2 left-hand bays. None of the rails is continuous across the facade, possibly 2 phases of construction, perhaps left hand bays a later addition. Central 4-centred arched door, flanked by full-height canted bays with 3-light wood mullioned and transomed windows on each floor, added c1912. Axial stack marks the junction of the 2 possible phases of construction. Lower 2-storey addition to the left, and long wing to the right, largely brick but incorporating some timber-framed construction. INTERIOR: early C17 staircase with splat balusters and moulded rail. HISTORICAL NOTE: the house was originally built on Dogpole, and was moved to its present position c1702 by the Earl of Bradford, its original site being developed with what is now the Guildhall (qv).
Listing NGR: SJ4942012755
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 455416
- 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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