10 The Square and 7 and 8 Market Street

10, The Square, Shrewsbury, SY1 1LA

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1254627
Date first listed:
10-Jan-1953
List Entry Name:
10 The Square and 7 and 8 Market Street
Statutory Address:
10, The Square, Shrewsbury, SY1 1LA
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1254627
Date first listed:
10-Jan-1953
Date of most recent amendment:
17-Nov-1995
List Entry Name:
10 The Square and 7 and 8 Market Street
Statutory Address 1:
10, The Square, Shrewsbury, SY1 1LA
Statutory Address 2:
7 and 8, Market Street, Shrewsbury

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
10, The Square, Shrewsbury, SY1 1LA
Statutory Address:
7 and 8, Market Street, Shrewsbury

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 49095 12454

Details

SJ4912SW
653-1/15/438

SHREWSBURY
MARKET STREET (north side)
Nos.7 and 8

10/01/53

GV
II
Includes: No.10 THE SQUARE.

House, now shop. Dated on rainwater head 1728. Brick with hipped plain tiled roof. Four storeys, six window range to The Square, eight window range to Market Street. Elevation to The Square has shop front possibly early C20, with panelled dado, decorated heads to glazing bars, and moulded console brackets to fascia. Twelve-pane sash windows above, with flat-arched stuccoed heads and moulded sills. Stuccoed angle quoins. Parapet eaves. Central rainwater head with monogram.

Facade to Market Street is similar, with late C20 shopfront to right, and channelled stucco to ground floor to left, with doorway in reeded architrave with triglyph frieze and fanlight. Entrance arch to passage to left. Two boarded windows to right upper. ainwater head with date, and masks on brackets. Nos 7 and 8 Market Street were listed on 30.5.69.


Listing NGR: SJ4909512454

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
457617
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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