7-12 The Armoury
7-12 THE ARMOURY, WENLOCK ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255094
- Date first listed:
- 19-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 7-12 The Armoury
- Statutory Address:
- 7-12 THE ARMOURY, WENLOCK ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255094
- Date first listed:
- 19-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 7-12 The Armoury
- Statutory Address 1:
- 7-12 THE ARMOURY, WENLOCK 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:
- 7-12 THE ARMOURY, WENLOCK 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 50844 11648
Details
653-1/5/689
19-SEP-72
SHREWSBURY
WENLOCK ROAD
(East side)
7-12 THE ARMOURY
(Formerly listed as:
WENLOCK ROAD
GROUP OF HOUSES AT THE ARMOURY)
II
SJ51SW
653-1/5/689
19/09/72
SHREWSBURY
WENLOCK ROAD
(East side)
No.7 The Armoury
(Formerly Listed as:
WENLOCK ROAD
Group of houses at the Armoury)
GV
II
Officer's house and workshops, now converted to 4 houses. c1806 with later C19 and C20 additions and alterations. For Shrewsbury Armoury.
Brick and painted brick with Welsh slate roof. Entrance front: The former Officer's House, No 7 is at left and has 2 storeys. There is a 3-window range
with central entrance. 12-pane sash windows to ground floor,with wide splayed heads. Central upper window blind. End wall stacks in hipped roof. Lower wing to the right originally workshops or stables of 5 symmetrical bays, now in separate occupation as houses and altered with cambered-headed C20 casements to both floors and a single-storey C20 porch to the centre of the ground floor. The armoury was built in 1806, and its architect was James Wyatt.
(Colvin H: A Dictionary of British Architects: London: 1978-).
Listing NGR: SJ5084411648
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 458400
- 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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