Description

SHREWSBURY

SJ4912SW WYLE COP
653-1/15/742 (North side (off))
19/09/72 Building to rear of Nag's Head
Public House
(Formerly Listed as:
WYLE COP
Timber-framed building adjoining the
Nag's Head Inn)

GV II

House, now remains. c1400. Timber-framed with plain tiled
roof. 2 storeys, what survives comprises screens passage and
spere truss wall with room beyond the passage probably a later
phase of construction, in gabled range running at right angles
to rear wing of Nag's Head public house (qv).
Front elevation comprises 3 bays of framing, a wide central
bay flanked by narrower outer bays. Ground floor consists of 3
arches, the outer arches having ogee heads, simple chamfered
arch to centre. These outer arches may have been modified to
form doorways, as there are seatings for additional horizontal
rails. Billet moulding on tie beam over, partly renewed. Above
this, the outer bays are framed in square panels with
quatrefoil and trefoil decoration. Simple struts in central
section. Queen post and collar truss in gable with cusped
braces. Collar purlin supports overhanging gabled roof carried
on cusped brackets. Framing of side wall also incorporates
possible doorway at first-floor level, with chamfered braces
forming lintel.
INTERIOR: flame-like carving to arched doorway in inner
partition parallel with side wall. Approx 1m behind this wall,
a second wall is framed in square panels and has cambered tie
beam with close studding over. Inner roof truss has cambered
tie beam and collar with short crown post with cusped bracing.
The building is abutted by rear range of Nag's Head public
house, but is a separate structure and probably the earlier of
the two. This is only a fragment of a formerly larger
dwelling, and some of the timbers in its present front wall
are trenched for other members now missing. What survives is
the screens passage of a former hall, demolished in c1967 and
removed to the Avoncroft Museum of Buildings.
(Country Life: Cornforth J: Five Centuries of Black and White:
1977-; Smith JT: Shrewsbury: Topography and Domestic
Architecture to the mid C17: 1953-).

Listing NGR: SJ4940512356

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26546720

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