5-9, SEVERN STREET
5-9, SEVERN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1254847
- Date first listed:
- 28-Aug-1975
- List Entry Name:
- 5-9, SEVERN STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 5-9, SEVERN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1254847
- Date first listed:
- 28-Aug-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Nov-1995
- List Entry Name:
- 5-9, SEVERN STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 5-9, SEVERN 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:
- 5-9, SEVERN 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 49748 13111
Details
SHREWSBURY
SJ41SE SEVERN STREET 653-1/4/608 (North East side) 28/08/75 Nos.5-9 (Consecutive) (Formerly Listed as: SEVERN STREET (North East side) Nos.1-17)
GV II
Row of 5 houses, formerly a weaving factory. Original structure c1806-1809, adapted and refronted c1860. Brick with Welsh slate roof, over iron-framed structure. 3 storeys, 5-window range. Single and paired doorways, the paired 6-panelled doors with overlights beneath single architraves. 12-pane sash windows on each floor, with wide splayed flat-arched heads, some painted. Plain oversailing eaves, axial stacks. Equal height of storeys, irregular window spacing, and traces of additional blocked openings between the windows on the upper floors are the external clues to the building's former use. INTERIOR: the cruciform cast-iron columns, beams and brick arched fire-proof ceilings of the iron-framed structure remain. Built as a weaving factory for Benyon and Bage's Canal Terminus flax mill.
Listing NGR: SJ4974813111
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 458185
- 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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