Swan Hill Court House

Swan Hill Court House, 4 Swan Hill Court

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1270555
Date first listed:
30-May-1969
List Entry Name:
Swan Hill Court House
Statutory Address:
Swan Hill Court House, 4 Swan Hill Court
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1270555
Date first listed:
30-May-1969
List Entry Name:
Swan Hill Court House
Statutory Address 1:
Swan Hill Court House, 4 Swan Hill Court

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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

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:
Swan Hill Court House, 4 Swan Hill Court

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 49037 12289

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 20 February 2023 to amend the text in the description

SJ4912SW
653-1/15/637

SHREWSBURY
SWAN HILL COURT (South West side)
No.4 (Swan Hill Court House)

30/05/69

GV
II*

Mansion. 1761-2. By Thomas Farnolls Pritchard. Built as the town house of the Earl of Bath. Brick with stone dressings, plain tiled roof. Three storeys,five-window range with lower flanking pavilions. Pediment over central three bays with arms and swags. Simple doorway with straight entablature and brackets, and moulded architraves to sash windows. Lower flanking pavilions have Venetian windows with broken pediments over.

(Colvin H: A Dictionary of British Architects: London: 1978-).

Listing NGR: SJ4903712289

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Legacy System number:
458333
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Colvin, H M, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, (1978)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

Ordnance survey map of Swan Hill Court House

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