RIGGS HALL RIGGS HALL, TO REAR OF LIBRARY

RIGGS HALL, CASTLE GATES

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1246750
Date first listed:: 30-May-1969
List Entry Name:: RIGGS HALL RIGGS HALL, TO REAR OF LIBRARY
Statutory Address:: RIGGS HALL, CASTLE GATES

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1246750
Date first listed:: 30-May-1969
Date of most recent amendment:: 17-Nov-1995
List Entry Name:: RIGGS HALL RIGGS HALL, TO REAR OF LIBRARY
Statutory Address 1:: RIGGS HALL, CASTLE GATES
Statutory Address 2:: RIGGS HALL, TO REAR OF LIBRARY, CASTLE GATES

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:: RIGGS HALL, CASTLE GATES
Statutory Address:: RIGGS HALL, TO REAR OF LIBRARY, 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 49354 12813

Details

SHREWSBURY

SJ4912NW CASTLE GATES 653-1/11/155 (West side) 30/05/69 Riggs Hall, to rear of Library (Formerly Listed as: CASTLE GATES (West side) Riggs Hall)

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House, formerly part of Shrewsbury School, now part of library. Early C15 but extensively restored. Timber-framed on high sandstone plinth with plain tiled roof. 2 storeys, main range comprising hall and solar block with cross wing possibly a later addition. Timber-framed with square panels with massive braces in rear elevation, some close studding on inner elevation and to cross wing with ogival braces. Cambered tie beams with vine scroll decoration, and jowelled posts with arched braces to gable. Ground floor largely altered on incorporation to library, the infill panels removed to leave timber-framed screen walls on inner faces. Upper storeys have 4-light casement windows, all renewed. The building was one of the original buildings of Shrewsbury School at its foundation in 1552. (Smith JT: Shrewsbury: Topography and Domestic Architecture to the Mid C17: 1953-).

Listing NGR: SJ4858411923

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Legacy System number:: 455419
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Smith, J T, Shrewsbury Topography and Domestic Architecture to the Mid C17, (1953)

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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.