The Lion and Pheasant Hotel

THE LION AND PHEASANT HOTEL, 49 AND 50, WYLE COP

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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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Official list entry

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

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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)

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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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