Monklands

MONKLANDS, ABBEY FOREGATE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1269760
Date first listed:
30-May-1969
List Entry Name:
Monklands
Statutory Address:
MONKLANDS, ABBEY FOREGATE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1269760
Date first listed:
30-May-1969
List Entry Name:
Monklands
Statutory Address 1:
MONKLANDS, ABBEY FOREGATE

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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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:
MONKLANDS, ABBEY FOREGATE

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 50151 12312

Details

SHREWSBURY

SJ5012SW ABBEY FOREGATE 653-1/17/70 (South side) 30/05/69 Monklands

GV II

House, now in commercial use. Early C19. Brick with Welsh slate roof. 3 storeys, 5-window range to central block, flanked by 2-storey single bay wings. Central stuccoed porch with Doric columns and triglyph frieze beneath balustraded parapet. Arcaded round-arched windows each side with string course over continuing into flanking wings where it forms pediment over Palladian windows. Upper windows are 4-pane sashes with flat-arched gauged brick heads. The central windows are in stressed stuccoed architraves. Moulded stone eaves cornice. Curved coped gables and paired gable end stacks.

Listing NGR: SJ5015112312

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Legacy System number:
460429
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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