Description

SHREWSBURY

SJ4812SE CANONBURY
653-1/14/141 (North side)
The Old House

II

House. Mid C19. Red brick with yellow brick dressings and
Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys with attic and basement.
2-window range with side entrance. Main elevation faces the
river: wide gable to the right with slightly projecting
3-light wood mullioned and transomed window with pedimented
wood head on principal floor, and mullioned and transomed
oriel window alongside. 2-light casement windows on upper
floor, with stilted arched yellow brick hoodmoulds. Ornate
fretted barge-boards to gables, the eaves projecting on wood
brackets.
Elevation to Canonbury has wide gable to left with 2-storeyed
lean-to porch on inner face. Round-arched doorway with
6-panelled door. Stilted arched windows above. In the gable
over the porch, 3-light window with Gothick traceried lights
and shafts as mullions. Wide 2-light mullioned and transomed
stair window in return gable elevation, and 2-light mullioned
and transomed windows to its right on each floor. End wall
stacks.

Listing NGR: SJ4871612001

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26539063

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Recommended Books

• 
  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings