The Butter Market
THE BUTTER MARKET, HOWARD STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1254526
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1953
- List Entry Name:
- The Butter Market
- Statutory Address:
- THE BUTTER MARKET, HOWARD STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1254526
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1953
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Nov-1995
- List Entry Name:
- The Butter Market
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE BUTTER MARKET, HOWARD 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:
- THE BUTTER MARKET, HOWARD 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 49492 12997
Details
SHREWSBURY
SJ4912NW HOWARD STREET 653-1/11/373 (East side) 10/01/53 The Butter Market (Formerly Listed as: HOWARD STREET Railway Warehouse)
GV II
Former butter warehouse, now in use as night club. c1835. By Fallows and Hart of Birmingham. Stucco, with low pitched roof not visible. High single-storey, 7 bays to Howard Street with lower buildings added to right, and 5-bay range behind. 3-window range to right of portico. Heavy Greek Revival style. Main range has central entrance block with high bases to columns each side of round-arched doorway with pully over, high entablature, cornice and parapet with blocking course. This is flanked each side by 2 bays with high plinth and parapet, and round-arched windows with iron glazing. Each side terminates in a stressed pedimented block with high round-arched window in pediment. Present doorway in low single-storey additions to right. Return elevation to Wharf Road has similar outer range terminating in pedimented block, and 2 stressed pedimented bays with round-arched recesses housing windows and panelled loading doors. Doorways and blocked windows in high plinth or basement storey, vermiculated in right-hand block. INTERIOR: internal structure has been modified on change of use, but cast-iron columns survive, though encased. The warehouse was originally built as a terminal warehouse for the Shrewsbury branch of the Shropshire Union canal, which was then superseded by the railway.
Listing NGR: SJ4949212997
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 457386
- 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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