Description

653-1/5/689
19-SEP-72

SHREWSBURY
WENLOCK ROAD
(East side)
7-12 THE ARMOURY
(Formerly listed as:
WENLOCK ROAD
GROUP OF HOUSES AT THE ARMOURY)

II

SJ51SW
653-1/5/689
19/09/72

SHREWSBURY
WENLOCK ROAD
(East side)
No.7 The Armoury
(Formerly Listed as:
WENLOCK ROAD
Group of houses at the Armoury)

GV
II

Officer's house and workshops, now converted to 4 houses. c1806 with later C19 and C20 additions and alterations. For Shrewsbury Armoury.
Brick and painted brick with Welsh slate roof. Entrance front: The former Officer's House, No 7 is at left and has 2 storeys. There is a 3-window range
with central entrance. 12-pane sash windows to ground floor,with wide splayed heads. Central upper window blind. End wall stacks in hipped roof. Lower wing to the right originally workshops or stables of 5 symmetrical bays, now in separate occupation as houses and altered with cambered-headed C20 casements to both floors and a single-storey C20 porch to the centre of the ground floor. The armoury was built in 1806, and its architect was James Wyatt.
(Colvin H: A Dictionary of British Architects: London: 1978-).

Listing NGR: SJ5084411648

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26546691

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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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