Number 6, the Armoury and Armoury Mews
NUMBER 6, THE ARMOURY AND ARMOURY MEWS, LONDON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270729
- Date first listed:
- 19-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Number 6, the Armoury and Armoury Mews
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBER 6, THE ARMOURY AND ARMOURY MEWS, LONDON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270729
- Date first listed:
- 19-Sept-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 21-Jun-2006
- List Entry Name:
- Number 6, the Armoury and Armoury Mews
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBER 6, THE ARMOURY AND ARMOURY MEWS, LONDON ROAD
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:
- NUMBER 6, THE ARMOURY AND ARMOURY MEWS, LONDON ROAD
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 50885 11678
Details
653-1/5/381
19-SEP-72
SHREWSBURY
LONDON ROAD
6 The Armoury and Armoury Mews
(Formerly listed as:
WENLOCK ROAD
GROUP OF HOUSES AT THE ARMOURY)
(Formerly listed as:
LONDON ROAD
6 THE ARMOURY)
II
Former officer's house and workshops, now two dwellings. c1806. Designed by James Wyatt for Shrewsbury Armoury. Brick with Welsh slate roof. No. 6 is a 3-window range of 2 storeys with central entrance with added porch. 12-pane sash windows to ground floor, with wide splayed heads. Central upper window blind. End wall stacks in hipped roof. The single-storeyed wing to the left originally workshops, now a separate dwelling (Armoury Mews). Some original openings with characteristic wide splayed heads still visible. Several windows inserted in C20 when converted to dwelling.
Included in the listing is the short stretch of boundary wall, with a heavy pier with chamfered stone capital, separating Armoury Mews from London Road.
Listing NGR: SJ5088511678
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 457394
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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