POLICEMAN'S CORNER

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1383772
Date first listed:: 15-Mar-1974
List Entry Name:: POLICEMAN'S CORNER
Statutory Address:: POLICEMAN'S CORNER

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Date:: 2004-11-04
Reference:: IOE01/13505/15
Rights:: © Mr Richard Summers. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1383772
Date first listed:: 15-Mar-1974
List Entry Name:: POLICEMAN'S CORNER
Statutory Address 1:: POLICEMAN'S CORNER

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: POLICEMAN'S CORNER

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

District:: Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Richard's Castle (Shropshire)
National Grid Reference:: SO 50947 72569

Details

RICHARDS CASTLE

SO57SW Policeman's Corner 482-1/9/153 15/03/74

II

Toll house, now house. Early C19. Stone rubble with hipped and gabled slate roofs. Octagonal plan with gabled wing to rear. Brick ridge stack in wing to rear. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Entrance front on west side in rear wing with single multi-pane casement window with stone sill over pentice roof covering single-storey lobby outshut adjacent to diagonally-boarded door set in C20 porch surround. Right-hand gable-end return: multi-pane casement window. Plain bargeboards at verge. Octagonal section: 2-light multi-pane casements on opposing faces with inset toll-charge tablet located on third side. 3 2-light multi-pane casements, one at ground floor under toll-charge tablet and others in opposing diagonal faces, all with projecting painted stone hood on bracket and stone sills. Vertically boarded shutters surviving on one window. INTERIOR: not inspected. A remarkably unaltered example of a C19 toll house.

Listing NGR: SO5094772569

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Legacy System number:: 484204
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.