THE RED HOUSE

THE RED HOUSE, 29, SHROPSHIRE STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1307650
Date first listed:: 07-May-1952
List Entry Name:: THE RED HOUSE
Statutory Address:: THE RED HOUSE, 29, SHROPSHIRE STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1307650
Date first listed:: 07-May-1952
Date of most recent amendment:: 05-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:: THE RED HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: THE RED HOUSE, 29, SHROPSHIRE STREET

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:: THE RED HOUSE, 29, SHROPSHIRE STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Market Drayton
National Grid Reference:: SJ 67481 34085

Details

SJ 6634-6734; 13/68

MARKET DRAYTON C.P., SHROPSHIRE STREET (south-east side), No. 29 (The Red House)

(formerly listed as The Red House)

07.05.52

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II

House, now divided into flats. Mid-C18 with additions of c.1900. Red brick with some painted sandstone ashlar dressings. Plain tile roof. Three storeys. Chamfered brick quoins at angles, stone plinth, first-floor stone cill band, moulded stone cornice, parapet with stone coping, and central 3-bay triangular pediment with broken -back centre. Integral brick end stacks with moulded stone caps. Central brick stack behind ridge. 2:3:2 bays, with central break; glazing bar sashes with exposed boxes, painted rusticated stone lintels with raised keystones, and painted stone cills. Central 6-panelled door with panelled reveals, moulded architrave and Ionic doorcase consisting of 3/4 fluted columns supporting entablature and triangular pediment, broken back at each end. Three stone steps with curved ends, and cast-iron boot scraper. Remains of former railed enclosures flanking entrance with low stone walls. Circa 1900 one-bay addition set back to left with plinth, chamfered cill bands to first and second floor, moulded stone cornice and coped parapet. Integral brick end stack to left. 16-pane glazing bar sashes with painted stone cills and painted rusticated stone lintels with raised keystones. Rear (garden front): five bays. Central 4-panelled half-glazed door with porch consisting of thin cast-iron columns and hood with moulded cornice and panelled soffit.

INTERIOR: entrance hall and staircase hall with moulded cornice. Early C19 oak staircase with open string, cut brackets, fluted stick balusters (3 per tread), moulded ramped handrail and wreathed newel. Matching landing balustrade. Right-hand word-floor rear room: C18 ornament including enriched plaster frieze with alternating swags and amphorae, and cornice with acanthus enrichment. Fireplace with marble surround, fluted frieze with central panel consisting of oval panel depicting a scene and flanking urns and drops, and enriched cornice. Blocked former archway to front room. Right-hand ground-floor front room: corner fireplace. Moulded cornice. Early C19 attic staircase with open string, cut brackets, fluted stick balusters (2 per tread), moulded handrail, and wreathed newel. 6-panelled doors throughout with moulded architraves. Pair of elliptical- arched first-floor doorways with pilastered surrounds. Interior only partly inspected because of division into flats.

Listing NGR: SJ6748134085

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Legacy System number:: 260372
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.