The Guildhall
THE GUILDHALL, DOGPOLE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1270999
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1953
- List Entry Name:
- The Guildhall
- Statutory Address:
- THE GUILDHALL, DOGPOLE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1270999
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1953
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Nov-1995
- List Entry Name:
- The Guildhall
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE GUILDHALL, DOGPOLE
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:
- THE GUILDHALL, DOGPOLE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Shrewsbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ4936312473
Details
SJ4912SW
653-1/15/279
10/01/53
SHREWSBURY
DOGPOLE
(East side)
The Guildhall
(Formerly Listed as:
DOGPOLE
(East side)
The Guildhall (Newport House))
GV
II*
House, later guildhall, now council offices. c1700. Brick with
hipped Welsh slate roof.
2 storeys, 5-window range. Central door up steps in early C19
porch with paired fluted Doric columns and triglyph frieze.
Original inner doorcase has enriched moulded architrave, with
scrolls and swags each side, a crown and boughs over it.
Windows are flush-framed 12-pane sashes with flat-arched
finely gauged brick heads, and continuous sill band. Deep
modillion eaves band to overhanging roof which has 3 dormers
with alternately triangular and segmental pediments. Stressed
angle quoins.
Garden front also a 5-window range with 3 pedimented dormers
in the roof. Lower windows are full-height sashes, one
extended to form French doors. 2 axial stacks, both later
builds or rebuilds.
INTERIOR: wall-panelling in many of the rooms and the
staircase with twisted balusters and moulded rail may date
from a later refurbishment of the house. Fireplace in entrance
hall has tiles in the style of William de Morgan.
The house was built by Richard Earl of Bradford on a site
previously occupied by what is now Castle Gates House, Castle
Gates (qv).
Listing NGR: SJ4936312473
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 456444
- 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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