71, 72 AND 73, WYLE COP
71, 72 AND 73, WYLE COP
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1255124
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1953
- List Entry Name:
- 71, 72 AND 73, WYLE COP
- Statutory Address:
- 71, 72 AND 73, WYLE COP
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1255124
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1953
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Nov-1995
- List Entry Name:
- 71, 72 AND 73, WYLE COP
- Statutory Address 1:
- 71, 72 AND 73, 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:
- 71, 72 AND 73, 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 49349 12329
Details
SHREWSBURY
SJ4912SW WYLE COP 653-1/15/730 (South side) 10/01/53 Nos.71, 72 AND 73 (Formerly Listed as: WYLE COP (South side) Nos.71, 72 AND 73 including Nos. 1 and 2 Barrack's Passage (to rear))
GV I
Pair of shops, originally dwelling but possibly also incorporating early shops. Mid C15. Timber-framed with plain tiled roof. Sloping site, with 4 storeys to lower section, 3 to upper, divided by central arch to passage. 4-window range. Lower storey partly renewed in brick with traditional-style shop windows inserted late C20. Framing in upper storeys is close studding, with middle rail in first floor and cusped braces across central section above. Deep coved jetty to second floor with moulded brackets. 3 casement windows with leaded lights over shop front in left-hand section. Paired 4-light mullioned and transomed windows above to left, one original (restored) with ornate traceried heads. Below this window a plaque reads "Henry VII lodged here in 1485 before Bosworth". 6-light mullioned and transomed oriel window over passage entry, and paired 2-light mullioned and transomed window to right. Some original (restored) fenestration in second storey: paired traceried 3-light windows to left, and a 6-light window centrally. Plain 4-light mullioned window to right. Exposed framing in side walls to passage, with tension braces, and an ogee arched timber doorway. Gable end stack. The building probably comprises a first-floor hall originally built over shops. An outstanding late medieval town house, the survival of original fenestration to the exterior being particularly notable. Rear wing forms Trotting Horse building on Barracks Passage (qv). (Smith JT: Shrewsbury: Topography and Domestic Architecture to the mid C17: 1953-).
Listing NGR: SJ4934912329
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 458756
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Smith, J T, Shrewsbury Topography and Domestic Architecture to the Mid C17, (1953)
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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