Prince Rupert Hotel
PRINCE RUPERT HOTEL, 6, 7 AND 8, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1246913
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Prince Rupert Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- PRINCE RUPERT HOTEL, 6, 7 AND 8, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1246913
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Prince Rupert Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- PRINCE RUPERT HOTEL, 6, 7 AND 8, CHURCH 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:
- PRINCE RUPERT HOTEL, 6, 7 AND 8, CHURCH 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 49287 12526
Details
SHREWSBURY
SJ4912NW CHURCH STREET 653-1/11/181 (North West side) 10/01/53 Nos.6, 7 AND 8 Prince Rupert Hotel
GV II*
House, now hotel. Largely early C17, but built in several phases. Timber-framed with brick lower storey and plain tiled roof. 2 storeys with high gabled attics, 4-window range. Ground floor rebuilt in brick and all features renewed: outer double doorway and 5 casement windows with mullions and transoms. Jettied upper storey with moulded bressumers, built in 3 phases. The outer bays are probably the earliest: left hand bay largely plastered over, with only corner post and wall plate visible. 3 light casement window, with another in the gabled dormer above. Right-hand bay framed with close studding and mid rail, with long raking tension braces. Projecting 4-light wood mullioned and transomed window, and a 3-light casement in the wide attic gable. Central section of 2 bays, framed with close studding with a tier of quatrefoil panelling above the middle rail, and ogee braces below it. Quatrefoil panelling and balustraded studs below the 2-gabled attic dormers. Stack on gable end of this central block.
Listing NGR: SJ4928712526
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 455984
- 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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