The Lion and Pheasant Hotel
THE LION AND PHEASANT HOTEL, 49 AND 50, WYLE COP
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255119
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1953
- List Entry Name:
- The Lion and Pheasant Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- THE LION AND PHEASANT HOTEL, 49 AND 50, WYLE COP
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- Date:
- 2004-06-24
- Reference:
- IOE01/12520/03
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255119
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1953
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Nov-1995
- List Entry Name:
- The Lion and Pheasant Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE LION AND PHEASANT HOTEL, 49 AND 50, WYLE COP
- Statutory Address 2:
- WYLE COP
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 LION AND PHEASANT HOTEL, 49 AND 50, WYLE COP
- Statutory Address:
- WYLE COP
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 49498 12306
Details
SHREWSBURY
SJ4912SE WYLE COP 653-1/16/740 (South side) 10/01/53 Nos.49 AND 50 The Lion and Pheasant Hotel (Formerly Listed as: WYLE COP (West side) Nos.49 AND 50)
GV II
Hotel. Probably C16 refronted early C18. Roughcast render over brick with timber-framing to rear and plain tiled roof. 2 storeys and attic dormers, 6-window range. Late C19 shop front to right, and doorway flanked by sash windows of 2 and 12 panes to left. Segmental archway to rear courtyard to left. Upper windows are 12-pane sashes. 2 string courses. 3 gabled dormers in the roof, gable end stacks. Traces of timber frame visible internally, and the rear wing is entirely timber framed, in square panels with some arched bracing in timbers of slight scantling. In the east facing wall, some evidence of phasing, with close-studded section adjoining main range framed separately from the rest. Inserted casement windows.
Listing NGR: SJ4949812306
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 458747
- 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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