Former Workhouse at Shifnal Hospital
Park Court, Shifnal, Shropshire, TF11 9BD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1367622
- Date first listed:
- 29-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Former Workhouse at Shifnal Hospital
- Statutory Address:
- Park Court, Shifnal, Shropshire, TF11 9BD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1367622
- Date first listed:
- 29-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Former Workhouse at Shifnal Hospital
- Statutory Address 1:
- Park Court, Shifnal, Shropshire, TF11 9BD
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:
- Park Court, Shifnal, Shropshire, TF11 9BD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Shifnal
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 74879 07227
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 3 July 2023 to amend the name and address, and to reformat the text to current standards
SJ 7407-7507
10/36
SHIFNAL C.P.
Park Court
(Formerly listed as PARK STREET (West side) Former Workhouse at Shifnal Hospital.)
II
Workhouse, Hospital at time of listing. 1817 with 1841 additions at rear. Red brick with ashlar dressings, and hipped slate roof. L-plan. Two storeys. Plinth, first floor cill band, dentil brick eaves cornice, ridge stacks off-centre to right and left, and ridge stack on wing. Ten bays,left hand bay projecting; glazing bar sashes with gauged heads, first floor C19 wooden cross window to right; blind arcaded ground floor with two orders of arches. Right-hand bay blank, second and third bays from right with C19 wooden cross windows, and left-hand bay with three-light C20 casement. Pairs of C19 three-panelled doors with over-lights in fourth and sixth bays from left, and C20 doors with overlight and rendered surround in seventh bay from left. Right-hand wing with two bay left-hand return front; first floor C19 wooden cross windows, ground floor C19 four-paned sash to right, and blocked door with overlight to left. This is an example of a workhouse constructed before the standardised designs built after the 1834 Poor Law.
N. Pevsner, B.O.E., Shropshire, p.245.
Listing NGR: SJ7487907227
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 255279
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Shropshire, (1958), 245
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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