Shrewsbury School, School House
SHREWSBURY SCHOOL, SCHOOL HOUSE, ASHTON ROAD
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Overview
- 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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- 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
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:
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 455079
- 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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