Clive House and Adjacent Dwelling
CLIVE HOUSE AND ADJACENT DWELLING, COLLEGE HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1271068
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Clive House and Adjacent Dwelling
- Statutory Address:
- CLIVE HOUSE AND ADJACENT DWELLING, COLLEGE HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1271068
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Clive House and Adjacent Dwelling
- Statutory Address 1:
- CLIVE HOUSE AND ADJACENT DWELLING, 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:
- CLIVE HOUSE AND ADJACENT DWELLING, 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 49120 12343
Details
SHREWSBURY
SJ4912SW COLLEGE HILL 653-1/15/234 (South side (off)) 10/01/53 Clive House and adjacent dwelling
GV II*
Formerly known as: No.3 Clive House COLLEGE HILL. House, now museum. C16 with facade of 1752. Timber-framed, encased and extended in brick, with plain tiled roofs. Main elevation faces south, 2 storeys, 6-window range. 12-pane flush-framed sashes with cambered heads. Central doorway with pedimented architrave, with rusticated pilasters and modillions in the pediment. Dentilled eaves cornice, coped gables. 6 gabled dormers within the roof. Axial and gable end stacks. Parallel gables in side elevation, with 6-panelled door with traceried fanlight in architrave with rusticated pilasters and flat entablature. Rear wing forms separate dwelling. 2 storeys, 3-window range, with 3- and 12-pane sashes. 6-panelled door to left, and inserted lower windows, the original flat-arched head still visible over central window. INTERIOR: range facing garden largely of 1752, with panelling, plaster cornices and fireplaces of that date, and staircase with 2 turned balusters to each moulded tread. Rear range incorporates substantial remains of earlier building, including timber-framed partition wall with panelling exposed in end wall of present drawing room, said to be part of a C15 hall. Timber-framing also exposed upstairs. HISTORICAL NOTE: the earlier building was part of the College of St Chad, and in the C18 the house was the property of the Clive family, and the home of Robert, Lord Clive, in 1762.
Listing NGR: SJ4912012343
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 456176
- 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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