Council House Gatehouse and Gateway
COUNCIL HOUSE GATEHOUSE AND GATEWAY, COUNCIL HOUSE COURTYARD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1247157
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Council House Gatehouse and Gateway
- Statutory Address:
- COUNCIL HOUSE GATEHOUSE AND GATEWAY, COUNCIL HOUSE COURTYARD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1247157
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Council House Gatehouse and Gateway
- Statutory Address 1:
- COUNCIL HOUSE GATEHOUSE AND GATEWAY, COUNCIL HOUSE COURTYARD
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:
- COUNCIL HOUSE GATEHOUSE AND GATEWAY, COUNCIL HOUSE COURTYARD
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 49411 12734
Details
SHREWSBURY
SJ4912NW COUNCIL HOUSE COURTYARD 653-1/11/253 (South East side) 10/01/53 Council House Gatehouse and Gateway House
GV I
House and gatehouse. The house probably early C16, gatehouse dated 1620. Timber-framed with brick panel infill and plain tiled roofs. Original building to north: low 2 storeys, probably 2-unit plan. Framed in square panels with close studding in gable. Casement windows in gable and side walls. Axial stack. Later wing added at right-angles to this to the rear: probably early C17. Framed in small square panelling with decorative quatrefoil panels in gable, and two 4-light mullioned and transomed windows in rear wall. Entrance is in lean-to porch against the gable, probably added in the early C20. Gatehouse block adjoins the south-west corner of this range: dated 1620. Wide gateway with fluted Corinthian columns on high bases each side, and possibly the original gates. Single window above, and high gabled dormer over. Framed in decorative small square panels with cusped quatrefoils. 4-light mullioned and transomed window, with enriched paired round-arched panels below it, and enrichment surrounding dormer window above. Vine-scroll decoration to tie-beam and barge-boards. On the street side, two 3-light mullioned windows with paired round-arched enriched panels beneath, and 2 high dormer windows over. 3-light Gothick window inserted C19 alongside gateway. Gateway House listed 30.5.69.
Listing NGR: SJ4941112734
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 456418
- 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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