56, WILLOW STREET
56, WILLOW STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1367326
- Date first listed:
- 15-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- 56, WILLOW STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 56, WILLOW STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1367326
- Date first listed:
- 15-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- 56, WILLOW STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 56, WILLOW 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:
- 56, WILLOW STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Oswestry
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 28928 29732
Details
SJ 2829 NE OSWESTRY C.P. WILLOW STREET (north-east side) 13/119 No. 56 -
GV II
House, latterly inn, now part of garage. Late C16 with later additions and alterations. Timber framed with plaster and red brick infill rendered to front, slate roof. L-plan with street frontage of 2 or 3 framed bays and long 4-bay range (end bay now removed and completely re-built) to rear. 2 storeys; framing: exposed to left side of long range, large square and rectangular panels, 3 from cill to wall-plate with wattle and daub infill visible below some of the plastered panels; street frontage has 2 three-light horizontal sliding sashes without glazing bars below eaves, ground floor has late C20 top-hung casement to left and contemporary shop front to left of former carriage entrance, now with late C20 trade sign over; reddish brown brick ridge stack to right and large stone stack with red brick shaft behind ridge at junction with range to rear; staircase projection to rear in angle with long range. Interior: moulded bressumer along right side of long range shows that it was formerly jettied; chamfered ceiling beams, some with straight-cut stops to main ground-floor rooms. Roof trusses of long range covered by wallpaper at time of re-survey (August 1985). Flat-roofed late C20 re-building of former end bay of long range is not of special architectural interest.
Listing NGR: SJ2893229737
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 255593
- 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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