Description

SHREWSBURY

SJ4912SW WYLE COP
653-1/15/741 (North side)
10/01/53 Nag's Head Public House
(Formerly Listed as:
WYLE COP
(North East side)
Nag's Head Inn)

GV II

Public house. Late C15 with late C19 alterations. Timber frame
painted over with plain tiled roof.
3 storeys, single-window range. Late C19 public house front to
ground floor with 6-panelled door to left and 3-light window
with carved spandrels to mullions and panelling below. Moulded
brackets carry quatrefoil and dentilled frieze over bressumer
to jettied upper floor which has continuous band of
small-paned casement windows. Jettied second storey with
horizontally sliding sash window. Rear wing is 2 storeys with
gabled dormer. Plaster over timber-frame with brick infill to
ground floor. Inserted doors to ground floor each side of
central inserted window. Casement windows of 2 and 3 lights
above. Square panelled framing also visible in gable wall
adjoining timber-framed building to rear (building to rear of
Nag's Head public house, qv).
(Smith JT: Shrewsbury: Topography and Domestic Architecture to
the mid C17: 1953-).

Listing NGR: SJ4940112350

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26546734

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Recommended Books

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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas