Badgers Court
BADGERS COURT, 43 AND 45, SHROPSHIRE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1307654
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Badgers Court
- Statutory Address:
- BADGERS COURT, 43 AND 45, SHROPSHIRE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1307654
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Badgers Court
- Statutory Address 1:
- BADGERS COURT, 43 AND 45, SHROPSHIRE STREET
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:
- BADGERS COURT, 43 AND 45, 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:
- SJ6743434050
Details
SJ 6634-6734
13/72
MARKET DRAYTON C.P.
SHROPSHIRE STREET
(south-east side)
Nos. 43 and 45
(Badgers Court)
GV
II
House, now 2 shops and flat. Dated 1651, with mid-to late C19 alterations.
Rendered timber framing and plain tile roof. L-plan; 2 framed bays (formerly
jettied to front) with rear wing. 2 storeys. 2 gables to front. Brick stack behind ridge
just off-centre to right. 3-window front: first-floor segmental-headed 4-pane sashes. shop-fronts
consisting of probably mid-C20 projecting 3 x 1 plate glass windows with
fascia and late C19 surround with carved brackets supporting moulded cornice;
recessed doorway with mid-C19 surround consisting of flanking convex pilaster
strips with roundels above and panel above door. Lean-to addition in
angle at rear. Reset doorway in rear wing with 4 raised and fielded panels.
Interior: square-panelled timber framed right-hand end and rear walls
(rear wall with exposed wattle and daub and woven-lath panels). Ovolo-
moulded spine beams. Formerly jettied first floor; bressumer with sunk
chamfer, carved geometrical patterns, and dated "1651 .:. GS"; evidence
of former moulded sub-bressumer or brackets (see each end). Inserted
C19 cast-iron posts to support first floor. Re-ordered C17 panelling,
some in rear corridor with carved blind arcading and frieze. Late C17
door with 6 raised and fielded panels also in rear corridor. Local people
report complete framing with expressed pegs, noted when the render was
removed
Listing NGR: SJ6743434050
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 260376
- 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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