4, 5 and 5a The Square

4, 5 and 5a, The Square, Shrewsbury, SY1 1LA

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1270485
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1953
List Entry Name:: 4, 5 and 5a The Square
Statutory Address:: 4, 5 and 5a, The Square, Shrewsbury, SY1 1LA

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1270485
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1953
Date of most recent amendment:: 17-Nov-1995
List Entry Name:: 4, 5 and 5a The Square
Statutory Address 1:: 4, 5 and 5a, The Square, Shrewsbury, SY1 1LA

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:: 4, 5 and 5a, The Square, Shrewsbury, SY1 1LA

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 49116 12485

Details

This List entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 04/07/2019

SJ 4912 SW 653-1/15/661

SHREWSBURY THE SQUARE (north-west side), Nos. 4, 5 and 5A

(Formerly listed as Nos. 5 and 5A, Former Old Plough Inn, previously listed as Nos. 5 AND 5A The Old Plough Inn, formerly listed as THE SQUARE (West side) Nos. 5 AND 5A)

10/01/53

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II Shop and former public house, originally a dwelling. Late C16.

Timber-framed with plain tiled roof. Three storeyed, three-window range. Ground floor renewed with brick nogging, with central and outer doorways, round-arched windows to left-hand shop, and oriel bay window to public house. Upper storeys each jettied out on moulded bressumer, and framed in small panels, with some ogee tension bracing, and quatrefoil panelling in the upper storey. Vertical members have raised twisted shaft decoration, and the timbers are also embellished with quatrefoil emblems. Three oriel wood mullioned and transomed windows with leaded lights on each floor, carried on moulded corbel brackets. Enriched bargeboards to gables over each upper window. Two rear wall stacks.

Listing NGR: SJ4911612485

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Legacy System number:: 458362
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.