Moreton Mill Cottages
MORETON MILL COTTAGES
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391001
- Date first listed:
- 26-Mar-2004
- List Entry Name:
- Moreton Mill Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- MORETON MILL COTTAGES
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391001
- Date first listed:
- 26-Mar-2004
- List Entry Name:
- Moreton Mill Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- MORETON MILL COTTAGES
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:
- MORETON MILL COTTAGES
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Shawbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ5753922733
Details
1328/0/10003
26-MAR-04
SHAWBURY
Moreton Mill Cottages
GV
II
Pair of cottages, formerly one house. Possibly C17 with early C18, late C18 and C19 additions and alterations. Red Flemish bond brick with a plain tile roof. Two storeys and one storey with attic. Entrance front; to right of centre are 4 ground floor windows with cambered heads and 2-light casements. To the first floor are three flat-headed 2-light casements [the right bay being blank]. Projecting band of 2 bricks depth between the floors and dentilled band at eaves level. To the right of this is a further bay with continues the eaves band but not that between the floors. To the left is the single storey range with attic which has a gabled porch door at right and a gabled dormer window to the attic. To the left of this is a projecting, single-storey C20 wing. At far right is a single-bay extension of the late C18. This has a flat headed 2-light casement to the first floor and a gabled porch at ground floor level with a small casement to its right. There is evidence of a blocked opening in the walling below the first floor window. The road front has a gabled wing at left with one ground floor window. To the right of this is a single bay with a shallow pyramidal roof. This has a blocked door to the ground floor with projecting keystone and a 2-light casement above. The rear has a similar single bay with 2-light casements to ground and first floors at far left and gabled porch and random fenestration.
The cottages form a group with Moreton Mill, Shawbury [q.v.] and Bridge 50m E of Moreton Mill [q.v.]
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 491683
- 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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