The Old Mansion
ST MARY'S STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1270572
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1953
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Mansion
- Statutory Address:
- ST MARY'S STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1270572
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1953
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Nov-1995
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Mansion
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST MARY'S STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE OLD MANSION, ST MARY'S STREET
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:
- ST MARY'S STREET
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD MANSION, ST MARY'S STREET
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 49284 12540
Details
SHREWSBURY
SJ4912NW ST MARY'S STREET 653-1/11/595 (West side (off)) 10/01/53 The Old Mansion (Formerly Listed as: CHURCH STREET (North side) Nos.6, 7 AND 8 Prince Rupert Hotel)
GV II*
House, now in use as offices and stores. Early C17, faced in brick, now painted, in late C17 or early C18. Plain tiled roof. 3 storeys, 3-window range with asymmetrical projecting outer gables, and front wall stacks, slightly advanced. Central doorway with part-glazed 6-panelled door in latticed porch with hood, and 16-pane sash windows with flat-arched heads in the gables. Upper windows also 16-pane flush-framed sashes, with single ring cambered heads, and some evidence that the original windows were somewhat narrower. Attic windows are casements, the right-hand window now blocked. 2-light window in central bay, and an original 2-light window in left-hand gable extended to 3 lights early C20. INTERIOR: timber-framing with close studding and angle braces exposed in the rear wall, and some wall panelling. Early C17 staircase, with bulbous splat balusters, moulded rail and Mannerist newel posts. Said to have been built by Thomas Jones, lawyer and first mayor of Shrewsbury, 1639. (Forrest: The Old Houses of Shrewsbury).
Listing NGR: SJ4928412540
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 458170
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Forrest, H E, Old Houses of Shrewsbury, ()
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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