Prince Rupert Hotel
PRINCE RUPERT HOTEL, 6, 7 AND 8, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1246913
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1953
- Statutory Address:
- PRINCE RUPERT HOTEL, 6, 7 AND 8, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1246913
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1953
- Statutory Address 1:
- PRINCE RUPERT HOTEL, 6, 7 AND 8, CHURCH STREET
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
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- Legacy System number:
- 455984
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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