Apothecaries House
APOTHECARIES HOUSE, 12, COLLEGE HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271066
- Date first listed:
- 30-May-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Apothecaries House
- Statutory Address:
- APOTHECARIES HOUSE, 12, COLLEGE HILL
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- Reference:
- IOE01/09989/16
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271066
- Date first listed:
- 30-May-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Apothecaries House
- Statutory Address 1:
- APOTHECARIES HOUSE, 12, COLLEGE HILL
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:
- APOTHECARIES HOUSE, 12, COLLEGE HILL
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 49059 12375
Details
SHREWSBURY
SJ4912SW COLLEGE HILL 653-1/15/226 (South West side) 30/05/69 No.12 Apothecaries House
GV II
House. Early C18, incorporating elements of an earlier building on the site, and extensively restored C20. Brick with plain tiled roof and some internal timbering. Main elevation faces south: 2 storeys with attic, 2-window range beneath wide gable partially rebuilt. French windows to ground floor, 12-pane sashes above, and 2-light casements in attic. Side entrance. Narrower gable to right with single window to each floor forms flying freehold over part of No.10 College Hill (qv). Axial stack. INTERIOR: wide entrance hall runs the length of the rear of the house, with early C18 staircase with turned balusters and closed string. Late C18 marble Adam-style fireplace in one ground-floor room. Extensive remains of earlier timber frame largely re-sited and forming present roof structure, including one deeply moulded possibly C16 beam. 2 painted plaster panels were removed from window embrasures during recent restoration work.
Listing NGR: SJ4905912375
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 456168
- 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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