26 AND 27, HIGH STREET
26 AND 27, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270761
- Date first listed:
- 19-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 26 AND 27, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 26 AND 27, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270761
- Date first listed:
- 19-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 26 AND 27, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 26 AND 27, HIGH 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:
- 26 AND 27, HIGH 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 49144 12548
Details
SHREWSBURY
SJ4912NW HIGH STREET 653-1/11/355 (North East side) 19/09/72 Nos.26 AND 27
II
2 buildings, now shop, but probably originally dwellings. c1800. Brick with roof not visible behind parapet. 4 storeys, 5-window range, divided 3-2 between the 2 buildings which are separate constructions though built at the same time. Late C20 inserted shopfront continues across adjacent property, No.25 (qv). Upper windows are 12-pane sashes with flat entablatures over, carried on moulded console brackets. There is an additional window in the centre of the first floor of No.27, with round-arched head. Stone quoins on angles of No.27. Moulded stone eaves cornice of identical design to both properties. Both form part of department store, and have done so since at least the early C20.
Listing NGR: SJ4914412548
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 457328
- 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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