SHREWSBURY SCHOOL, SCHOOL HOUSE

SHREWSBURY SCHOOL, SCHOOL HOUSE, ASHTON ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1271348
Date first listed:: 17-Nov-1995
List Entry Name:: SHREWSBURY SCHOOL, SCHOOL HOUSE
Statutory Address:: SHREWSBURY SCHOOL, SCHOOL HOUSE, ASHTON ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1271348
Date first listed:: 17-Nov-1995
List Entry Name:: SHREWSBURY SCHOOL, SCHOOL HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: SHREWSBURY SCHOOL, SCHOOL HOUSE, ASHTON ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: SHREWSBURY SCHOOL, SCHOOL HOUSE, ASHTON ROAD

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 48635 12018

Details

SHREWSBURY

SJ4812SE ASHTON ROAD 653-1/14/88 (West side (off)) Shrewsbury School, School House

GV II

School house. c1882. Purpose built by Sir Arthur Blomfield. Brick with hipped Welsh slate roof. Brick with terracotta dressings and hipped plain tiled roof. Queen Anne style. Main range of 3 storeys and attic, 10-window range, 3-4-3, the outer sections advanced. Central entrance within projecting porch with fluted pilasters and wood balustrading over. Paired doors with traceried fanlight. Tripartite windows over door with entablature and scrolled pediments over. Ornamental glazing in the central window. 20-pane sash windows with entablatures and continuous sill bands. Similar windows in upper storey. Outer sections have tripartite windows on each floor, also with entablatures, and scrolled pediments over first floor. Ornamental glazing in French doors to right. Coved cornice to projecting roof with fluted axial stacks. Hipped roofed dormer windows within the roof. 4-storey rear range linked by wing to main block and employing similar detail. Part of a group of buildings commissioned by Shrewsbury School, this is also of significance as an early example of the Neo-Georgian style.

Listing NGR: SJ4863512018

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Legacy System number:: 455079
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.