Description

SHREWSBURY

SJ4912SW MILK STREET
653-1/15/445 (South East side)
10/01/53 No.1
Old Post Office Public House
(Formerly Listed as:
MILK STREET
(South East side)
Nos.1 AND 2
Old Post Office Inn)

GV II

Public house. C17 core, extended in C19. Timber-framed
extended and infilled with painted brick, plain tiled roof.
3-storeyed, T-plan.
Long range at right-angles to line of street, the front
portion brick painted with mock timbering. Inserted casement
windows on each floor. Rear portion of this range is partly
timber-framed, with timbers of slight scantling, raised in
brick, and also extended in later C19. Single axial stack on
rear wall.
Short cross wing has timber-framed core, refaced in brick
painted with mock timbering, but exposed in gable end. Square
panels with arch bracing, and thinner scantling timbers in
upper storey, suggesting a later addition. Doorway in hipped
roofed porch in angle, tripartite sash window with small upper
panes, and heavy oriel sash above. 16-pane sash in upper
storey. Gable end stack.

Listing NGR: SJ4928612362

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26546305

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Recommended Books

• 
  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)