65-69, WYLE COP
65-69, WYLE COP
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1270460
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1953
- List Entry Name:
- 65-69, WYLE COP
- Statutory Address:
- 65-69, WYLE COP
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1270460
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1953
- List Entry Name:
- 65-69, WYLE COP
- Statutory Address 1:
- 65-69, 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:
- 65-69, 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 49390 12322
Details
SHREWSBURY
SJ4912SW WYLE COP 653-1/15/728 (South side) 10/01/53 Nos.65-69 (Consecutive)
GV II*
Terrace of 4 units, now 5 shops with flats over, probably originally dwellings. c1500 with later modifications. Timber-framed with plain tiled roof. Largely 3 storeys, but built on sloping site so No.69 at the upper end of the row has shop front occupying equivalent of ground and first floor, with wide gabled attic above. 8-window range. Shop fronts mostly late C19 or early C20 in style, and central arched entry to rear passage. Close studding with partial mid rail in upper storey with 2 windows to each unit. No.65 has sash windows, the rest all shallow oriels inserted in early C20, with wood mullions and transoms and leaded lights. Second storey is jettied out, but in Nos 65-69 the jetty is a cast-iron lintel, and the timbering above is mock painted suggesting extensive restoration or major rebuilding. Upper windows are slightly projecting mullioned casements of 4 lights, run together to form a long 8-light window over No.68. Shaw-style oriel windows to No.69. Two gabled dormers in the roof over Nos 66 & 67, and a wide jettied gable, possibly a C20 insertion to No.69, with 5-light casement window and barge-boards with finial. Various axial and rear wall stacks.
Listing NGR: SJ4939012322
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 458754
- 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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