House of Grain and Cornhouse Apartments

59A Wyle Cop, Shrewsbury, SY1 1XJ

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1270463
Date first listed:: 20-Sep-1994
List Entry Name:: House of Grain and Cornhouse Apartments
Statutory Address:: 59A Wyle Cop, Shrewsbury, SY1 1XJ

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1270463
Date first listed:: 20-Sep-1994
List Entry Name:: House of Grain and Cornhouse Apartments
Statutory Address 1:: 59A Wyle Cop, Shrewsbury, SY1 1XJ

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: 59A Wyle Cop, Shrewsbury, SY1 1XJ

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 49441 12300

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 12 March 2025 to amend the name, address and description due to a change in building use and reformat the text to current standards.

SJ4912SW 653-1/15/738

SHREWSBURY WYLE COP (south side) No 59A, House of Grain and Cornhouse Apartments

(Formerly listed as The Corn House, WYLE COP)

20/09/94

GV II Former corn warehouse and corn merchant's house now in use as a restaurant and apartments. c1850. Brick with Welsh slate roof, iron framing internally. Five storeys, three window range articulated by recessed full-height arches with blue brick dressings. Inserted shop front to ground floor, and French doors in centre of first floor (replacing loading doors). All other windows have cast-iron frames in blue brick segmental arches. Stepped corbelling to coped gables with scrolled kneelers. Four window range return to St Julian's Friars divided by pilasters into segmentally-arched bays, then door and shop front to former merchant's house, with taller two-pane sashes with flat-arched stuccoed heads. Listing NGR: SJ4944112300

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Legacy System number:: 458767
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.