Whitehall Terrace and attached wall and gate piers

Whitehall Terrace, 1-4, Whitehall Street

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1254940
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1953
List Entry Name:: Whitehall Terrace and attached wall and gate piers
Statutory Address:: Whitehall Terrace, 1-4, Whitehall Street

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1254940
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1953
List Entry Name:: Whitehall Terrace and attached wall and gate piers
Statutory Address 1:: Whitehall Terrace, 1-4, Whitehall Street

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: Whitehall Terrace, 1-4, Whitehall 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 50057 12516

Details

SJ 5012 NW 653-1/13/692

SHREWSBURY WHITEHALL STREET (south side), Nos. 1-4 (Consecutive), Whitehall Terrace and attached wall and gate piers

10/01/53

GV II Terrace of four houses, c1836. Brick with stuccoed lower storey and Welsh slate roof. Three storeys, eight window range, the central four bays advanced. Round-arched doorways with part-glazed doors with stained-glass margin lights flanked by twelve-pane sash windows to ground floor. Full-height French windows on first floor with pedimented heads in outer bays, the central range having flat entablatures carried on console brackets. These windows open onto cast-iron balcony with latticework railings carried on cast-iron columns. Six-pane sash windows in attic storey. Cornice then parapet above. Coped gables, axial stacks. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached to the terrace at its street end, the brick boundary wall with stone coping curves down to the gate piers with pyramidal stone copings, and a cast-iron gate.

Listing NGR: SJ5005712516

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Legacy System number:: 458403
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Trinder, B, Victorian Shrewsbury

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.