Building Adjacent to the Old School House
BUILDING ADJACENT TO THE OLD SCHOOL HOUSE, SCHOOL GARDENS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1254870
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Building Adjacent to the Old School House
- Statutory Address:
- BUILDING ADJACENT TO THE OLD SCHOOL HOUSE, SCHOOL GARDENS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1254870
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1953
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Nov-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Building Adjacent to the Old School House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BUILDING ADJACENT TO THE OLD SCHOOL HOUSE, SCHOOL GARDENS
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:
- BUILDING ADJACENT TO THE OLD SCHOOL HOUSE, SCHOOL GARDENS
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 49338 12780
Details
SHREWSBURY
SJ4912NW SCHOOL GARDENS 653-1/11/606 (West side) 10/01/53 Building adjacent to The Old School House (Formerly Listed as: SCHOOL GARDENS Premises occupied by West Midlands and British Quarrying Co Ltd)
GV II
Formerly known as: Offices of the General Accident, Fire and Life Assurance Corporation Ltd SCHOOL GARDENS. Offices, originally part of Shrewsbury School. Part probably C16, but extensively rebuilt 1818, probably by E and JH Haycock. Painted brick with plain tiled roof, and remains of timber-framing internally. 2 storeys with attic, 3 bays with wide advanced gable to the left. Neo-Tudor style, with round-arched mullioned windows with hoodmoulds. 2-window range in gable, with small doorway to left, and 2-light mullioned windows on each floor. Main doorway to right of long range in stone embattled porch with 4-centred archway and Salop arms over it. Built into the walls of the porch are a number of antique sculptural fragments. Canted bay window with embattled parapet in the centre of the long range, and mullioned windows of 1 and 2 lights above. 2 coped gabled dormers with 2-light casement windows. INTERIOR: hallway and a rear ground-floor room incorporate C17 wall-panelling, probably not in situ, and not all original. The panelling in the rear room is carved with the names of former pupils of the school between 1843 and 1881. Some timber-framing has also been exposed internally. (Colvin H: A Dictionary of British Architects: London: 1978-).
Listing NGR: SJ4933812778
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 458182
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Colvin, H M, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, (1978)
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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