St Winefride's Convent (Part)
ST WINEFRIDE'S CONVENT (PART), 1 AND 2, COLLEGE COURT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271079
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1953
- List Entry Name:
- St Winefride's Convent (Part)
- Statutory Address:
- ST WINEFRIDE'S CONVENT (PART), 1 AND 2, COLLEGE COURT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271079
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1953
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Nov-1995
- List Entry Name:
- St Winefride's Convent (Part)
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST WINEFRIDE'S CONVENT (PART), 1 AND 2, COLLEGE COURT
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:
- ST WINEFRIDE'S CONVENT (PART), 1 AND 2, COLLEGE COURT
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 49153 12334
Details
SHREWSBURY
SJ4912SW COLLEGE COURT 653-1/15/211 (South West side) 10/01/53 Nos.1 AND 2 St Winefride's Convent (part) (Formerly Listed as: COLLEGE COURT No.1) (Formerly Listed as: COLLEGE COURT No.2 Newill House)
GV II
Formerly known as: No.3 COLLEGE COURT. Two houses, now convent. Mid C18, with early C19 additions, possible earlier timber-framed core in one range. Brick with Welsh slate roofs. No.1 forms principal building: mid C18, two-storeyed, with attics. 3 bays, with additional gabled bay to right. Central doorway, an 8-panelled door in Gibbs surround with pediment, flanked by 4-pane sash windows with cambered arched heads. Similar doorcase and arrangement of facade on rear elevation also. 12-pane sash windows with cambered heads on each floor in gabled range to right. Gable end stacks. Running at right angles to this, a cross range apparently mid-late C18, possibly incorporating an earlier structure (some coursed stonework in wall to St Chad's Churchyard). 2-storeyed, 3-window range to courtyard, with 4-panelled doorway to left and 4-pane sash windows. Added to north in early C19, and once in separate occupation, a 2-storeyed, 3-window range with central pedimented bay advanced, with blocked central door flanked by narrow 8-pane sash windows, and 12-pane sashes in the outer bays, all with flat-arched gauged brick heads. Plain overhanging eaves. INTERIOR: No.1 has original staircase with moulded tread ends and turned balusters inside.
Listing NGR: SJ4915312334
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 456153
- 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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