1 and 2 Mardol Head

1 and 2, Mardol Head, Shrewsbury, SY1 1HD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1270692
Date first listed:: 17-Nov-1995
List Entry Name:: 1 and 2 Mardol Head
Statutory Address:: 1 and 2, Mardol Head, Shrewsbury, SY1 1HD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1270692
Date first listed:: 17-Nov-1995
List Entry Name:: 1 and 2 Mardol Head
Statutory Address 1:: 1 and 2, Mardol Head, Shrewsbury, SY1 1HD

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

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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:: 1 and 2, Mardol Head, Shrewsbury, SY1 1HD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Shrewsbury
National Grid Reference:: SJ4912512536

Details

This List entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 21/05/2019

SJ 4912 NW 653-1/11/428

SHREWSBURY MARDOL HEAD (north west side) Nos. 1 and 2

(Formerly listed as previously Nos. 1, 2 and 3, Mardol Head, previously listed as Alliance and Leicester Building Society)

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II Office premises, purpose built. 1903. Ashlar-faced over brick with Welsh slate roof. Two-and-a-half storeys with curved corner on angle of Mardol Head and High Street, and three window range to Mardol Head. Free Renaissance style. Inserted shop front to Mardol Head elevation, and oriel window with leaded lights, cornice and shallow scrolled pediment above. Small paired mullioned and transomed windows and inscribed lettering, "Royal Insurance Company" in half-storey below. Gabled dormer to left and axial stack. Pilasters articulate the left-hand bay, which has mullioned windows on each floor. Cupola recessed behind with ribbed dome carried on turned wood balusters. Oriel window over door across angle, with curved moulded base, also inscribed "R.I.S.". Full-height mullioned and transomed window over across the curve, flanked by leaded lights in scrolled pediments, and with ribbed domed leaded roof above. Rainwater head to left with date. Moulded eaves cornice with finials. Stack on left-hand gable. A dramatic and skillful articulation of this important corner site.

Listing NGR: SJ4912512536

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Legacy System number:: 457607
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.