The Sandbrook Vaults
THE SANDBROOK VAULTS, 4, SHROPSHIRE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1366469
- Date first listed:
- 07-May-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Sandbrook Vaults
- Statutory Address:
- THE SANDBROOK VAULTS, 4, SHROPSHIRE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1366469
- Date first listed:
- 07-May-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 05-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Sandbrook Vaults
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE SANDBROOK VAULTS, 4, 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:
- THE SANDBROOK VAULTS, 4, 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 67520 34141
Details
SJ 6634-6734; 13/79
MARKET DRAYTON C.P.,
SHROPSHIRE STREET (north-west side),
No. 4 (The Sandbrook Vaults)
(Formerly listed as Sandbrook's Vaults)
07.05.52
GV
II
House, now inn. Dated 1653. Timber-framed with plastered infill on
rendered plinth. Plain tile roof. Framing: ground-floor closely-
spaced studs with middle rail. First floor with diagonal struts forming
chevron patterns. Attic with tier of quatrefoil panels beneath eaves.
Jettied first floor and attic, each with carved brackets supporting carved
bressumers (pairs of opposed dragons to first floor and vine trail to
attic) with ovolo moulding to lower edge. Three framed bays. Two storeys
and attic. Pair of large timber-framed gabled full dormers to right
with C20 three-light metal casements and rendered gables. Integral lateral
brick stack at front to right. Three first-floor windows; pair of C20 three-
light metal casements to right and C19 three light small-paned window
to left. Pair of ground-floor C20 three-light small-paned windows to
left. Pair of ground-floor C20 three-light small-paned wooden casements.
nail-studded boarded door with decorative wrought-iron strap hinges, between
windows just off-centre to right. Passageway to left has nail-studded
boarded door with decorative wrought-iron strap hinges and ovolo-moulded
reveals. Inscribed date beneath first-floor bressumer to left:
"M 16 R E 53".
Ground floor windows replace C17 oriels (see square and diamond mortices in
underside of first-floor bressumer and sections of bressumer without lower
moulding), the left-hand window of three lights and the right hand of four lights.
Centre section of attic bressumer has been replaced. Passageway to left
has square-panelled framed side wall with carpenters marks, brick
nogging and sandstone plinth. Chamfered corner post at rear. INTERIOR:
two pairs of ovolo-moulded spine beams. Corner fireplace in right-hand
room. Only the ground floor inspected. No. 4, Shropshire Street forms
an impressive continuous range with No. 2 Shropshire Street and Nos. 1
and 3, Cheshire Street (q.v.) B.o.E., p.196.
Listing NGR: SJ6752034141
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 260384
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Shropshire, (1958), 196
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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