The Music Hall
THE MUSIC HALL, THE SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1254928
- Date first listed:
- 30-May-1969
- List Entry Name:
- The Music Hall
- Statutory Address:
- THE MUSIC HALL, THE SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1254928
- Date first listed:
- 30-May-1969
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Nov-1995
- List Entry Name:
- The Music Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE MUSIC HALL, THE SQUARE
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 MUSIC HALL, THE SQUARE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Shrewsbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ4910112430
Details
SJ4912SW
653-1/15/671
30/05/69
SHREWSBURY
THE SQUARE
(South West side)
The Music Hall
(Formerly Listed as:
THE SQUARE
Nos.11 AND 12
The Music Hall)
GV
II
Formerly known as: No.11 THE SQUARE.
Civic hall. 1839. By Edward Hiram Haycock. Ashlar faced,
rusticated to basement storey. 3 storeys, 5-window range.
Neo-classical, with pedimented advanced central bay. Giant
Ionic portico over basement storey, which has central entrance
flanked by tripartite windows with console brackets to
entablatures. Upper windows behind the portico are 24-pane
sashes in stressed architraves with entablatures to first
floor, the central pedimented. Flanking bays have plain
tripartite windows to lower floor, 24-pane sashes above, with
pedimented heads.
INTERIOR: substantially altered. The building now incorporates
the former Masonic Hall (Former Masonic Temple, College Hill,
qv) as its main functions room. The hall of the former
Vaughan's Mansion (qv) is also incorporated in the complex.
Listing NGR: SJ4910112430
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 458372
- 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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