8 and 9 The Square
8 and 9, The Square, Shrewsbury, SY1 1LA
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1270486
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1953
- List Entry Name:
- 8 and 9 The Square
- Statutory Address:
- 8 and 9, The Square, Shrewsbury, SY1 1LA
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1270486
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1953
- List Entry Name:
- 8 and 9 The Square
- Statutory Address 1:
- 8 and 9, The Square, Shrewsbury, SY1 1LA
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:
- 8 and 9, 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:
- SJ4910212463
Details
SJ4912SW
653-1/15/664
SHREWSBURY
THE SQUARE (North West side)
Nos. 8 and 9
10/01/53
GV
II*
Pair of shops and offices, formerly dwellings. Dated 1730, but incorporating remnants of an earlier building. Brick with plain tiled roof.
Three storeys, five window range. Inserted shop front in traditional style with console brackets to fascia. Elongated flush-framed twelve-pane sash windows above with cambered heads with keystones. Moulded sills, with aprons to second floor. Ornate rainwater head with monogram and date. Keystones of second floor windows reach moulded cornice, and over each is a raised panel in the high parapet, which also has a moulded cornice. Crow-stepped gable to rear.
INTERIOR: series of panelled rooms to first floor, early C18 in two front rooms, with dado and high panels over, and fluted pilasters over fireplace, painted in one room, oak in the other. Rear room has C16 panelling in small squares and a frieze which incorporates the arms of Henry VIII, mythical beasts, grotesques. Early C18 staircase with three turned balusters to each moulded tread. Cellars said to incorporate remains of a C13 stone building.
Listing NGR: SJ4909312477
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 458366
- 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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