16 AND 17, CASTLE STREET
16 AND 17, CASTLE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246563
- Date first listed:
- 19-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 16 AND 17, CASTLE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 16 AND 17, CASTLE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246563
- Date first listed:
- 19-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 16 AND 17, CASTLE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 16 AND 17, CASTLE STREET
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:
- 16 AND 17, CASTLE STREET
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 49340 12727
Details
SHREWSBURY
SJ4912NW CASTLE STREET 653-1/11/166 (North West side) 19/09/72 Nos.16 AND 17
GV II
Shop. Early C19, with facade of the C20. Mock timber facade over brick, with plain tiled roof. 2 storeys, 3-window range with shop front of three 4-centred arched bays with central doorway with carved spandrels and leaded upper lights to windows. Late C20 fascia and canopy over. Upper windows are leaded casements of 2 lights, flanking a 6-light central window, and there is a 2-light casement in the central attic gable. Mock timber-framing is close studding with ogee arched braces. Enriched barge-boards to gable. Return elevation to School Gardens is brick wing running back from this street block. Painted brick, 3 storeys, with inserted double doors and window to ground floor, 12-pane sash windows above (20-panes to attic), with flat-arched heads. Projecting added square oriel at first floor, with leaded upper lights and carved floral frieze. Dentilled eaves band.
Listing NGR: SJ4933512735
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 455431
- 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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