Description

SHREWSBURY

SJ4912NW
653-1/11/354
10/01/53

HIGH STREET
(North East side)
No.25

GV
II*

House, now shop. Dated 1709, but incorporating an earlier
structure. Brick front to timber-frame with plain tiled roof.
3 storeys with 2 pedimented gabled dormers in the roof.
3-window range. Inserted late C20 shopfront continues across
adjacent buildings, Nos 23, 24, 26 & 27 (qv). Upper windows
are 12-pane sashes with flat-arched brick heads, moulded sills
and recessed aprons below second-floor windows. One of these
is occupied by a stone panel inscribed with the date. Stone
quoins and string course. Overhanging moulded wood modillion
eaves cornice.
INTERIOR: timber-framed structure extensively exposed, where
it is incorporated into the larger premises of the department
store, of which this building has formed a part since at least
the early C20.

Listing NGR: SJ4915512534

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17542570

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
• 
  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
• 
  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
• 
  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
• 
  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock