Description

SHREWSBURY

SJ4912SW DOGPOLE
653-1/15/274 (East side)
10/01/53 No.20
The Old House
(Formerly Listed as:
DOGPOLE
(East side)
No.20
Ye Old House)

GV II*

House. Plan late C15, facades largely renewed c1600, with
alterations and additions of c1800 and c1900, and further
extensive early C20 restoration. Timber-framed with brick
additions and plain tiled roofs. Main range with 2 cross
wings, the northern wing rebuilt c1800.
EXTERIOR: main range timber-framed to street front. Close
studding with brick nogging to ground floor, balustraded
decoration above. 2 storeys with attics. Doorway to left in
angle with north wing, with ornately carved Mannerist posts
with strapwork decoration. 6-light mullioned and transomed
window to right on each floor. Axial stack with star shaped
clustered brick flues.
Rear refronted c1800. Brick. 8-window range with outer
doorways in moulded architraves, and 12-pane sash windows with
flat-arched brick heads.
South wing also timber-framed. Main frame in north-facing wall
has cambered ties and bracing, with close studding which may
be a later modification. Close studding to paired gables
facing street, with mullioned windows and a canted bay in
right hand gable. Axial side wall stack, partly stone.
North wing rebuilt c1800. Brick. 2-storeyed, 2-window range,
12-pane sashes with flat-arched heads, and blind window over
doorway to right.
INTERIOR: entrance hall in main range: staircase has splat
balusters and moulded rail, modified c1900 by addition or
replacement of dado panelling, newels and overarch with
pendant. Panelled room alongside stair hall, with oriel window
in side elevation, and Neo-Jacobean fireplace. C17 panelling
also in front room of south wing. Rooms in rear of main range
largely as refurbished c1900, with panelling and fireplaces of
that time.
Traces of earlier layout survive upstairs, with moulded cross
beamed ceiling and partial C17 panelling in rear of main
range. Raking wall posts carry chamfered cross beams of
ceiling in front section of south wing; C18 basket grate with
Delft-tiled surround. Exposed framing in internal partition
wall with jowelled corner post and arched braces.
(Smith JT: Shrewsbury: Topography and Domestic Architecture to
the Mid C17: Birmingham: 1953-).

Listing NGR: SJ4936712423

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17542457

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Recommended Books

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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)