Whitehall
WHITEHALL, MONKMOOR ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1254660
- Date first listed:
- 30-May-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Whitehall
- Statutory Address:
- WHITEHALL, MONKMOOR ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1254660
- Date first listed:
- 30-May-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Whitehall
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHITEHALL, MONKMOOR ROAD
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:
- WHITEHALL, MONKMOOR ROAD
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 50234 12495
Details
SHREWSBURY
SJ5012SW MONKMOOR ROAD 653-1/17/447 (East side) 30/05/69 Whitehall
GV II*
House, now in use as government offices. 1578-1582. Built for Richard Prince. Coursed and squared red sandstone with plain tiled roofs and internal timber-frame. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with basements and attics, square in plan, with 3 gables on each elevation. Principal rooms in the 4 angles, lesser rooms in centre of each elevation, the original layout now partially obscured by later partitions. Central entrance in stone porch probably added in early C17, the doorway approached up steps in the return elevation of the porch. Triglyph frieze below parapet. Windows throughout with some lozenge glazing, of 4 and 2 lights to ground floor, 4-lights above, and 3-lights in gabled attics. Central timbered octagonal belvedere with leaded windows and ogee lead roof capped by weather vane. Fluted brick chimneys on 3 sides. Round-arched rear entrance with long segmentally-arched porch roof carried on spiked ball finials on stone piers. INTERIOR: the original staircase survives, with heavy turned balusters, newels with ball finials and moulded rail. Most internal panelling replaced, but plaster ceiling of hall survives - lozenges containing roses, thistles, in low relief. Small room on first floor with monochrome painted panels superimposed on timber-framed partition walls - abstract scheme composed of arabesques, fleurs-de-lys, roses. Exposed timber-framing in upper storeys and roof. HISTORICAL NOTE: the house was built on land taken from the estates of Shrewsbury Abbey, and probably employs stone taken from abbey buildings. A fine and significant example of a late C16 house built to a compact plan form. (Country Life: Tipping HA: Country Homes and Gardens Old and New: Whitehall, Shropshire: 1920-: 200-206; Leach F: The Country Seats of Shropshire: 1891-).
Listing NGR: SJ5023412495
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 457691
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Leach, F, The County Seats of Shropshire, (1891)
Country Life in Country Life, (1920)
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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