41 and 42 Abbey Foregate
41 and 42, Abbey Foregate, Shrewsbury, SY2 6AQ
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271417
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1953
- List Entry Name:
- 41 and 42 Abbey Foregate
- Statutory Address:
- 41 and 42, Abbey Foregate, Shrewsbury, SY2 6AQ
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271417
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1953
- List Entry Name:
- 41 and 42 Abbey Foregate
- Statutory Address 1:
- 41 and 42, Abbey Foregate, Shrewsbury, SY2 6AQ
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:
- 41 and 42, Abbey Foregate, Shrewsbury, SY2 6AQ
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 49966 12478
Details
SJ4912SE
653-1/16/15
SHREWSBURY
ABBEY FOREGATE (north side)
Nos. 41 and 42
10/01/53
GV
II
Pair of houses. c1800. Brick with Welsh slate roof. Three storey five window range, comprising one single- and one two-unit plan. Central part-glazed door with margin lights to No.41 in pedimented case, flanked by four-pane sash windows with flat-arched gauged brick heads. Blind painted window over door. Doorway of No.42 to right, a part-glazed six-panelled door in pedimented case with plasterwork fan tracery in tympanum. Sixteen-pane sash windows on each floor to left, and twelve-pane sash window over doorway, all with flat-arched gauged brick heads. Dentilled eaves, gable and axial stacks.
Listing NGR: SJ4996712484
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 454655
- 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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