Description

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19-SEP-72

SHREWSBURY
LONDON ROAD
6 The Armoury and Armoury Mews
(Formerly listed as:
WENLOCK ROAD
GROUP OF HOUSES AT THE ARMOURY)
(Formerly listed as:
LONDON ROAD
6 THE ARMOURY)

II

Former officer's house and workshops, now two dwellings. c1806. Designed by James Wyatt for Shrewsbury Armoury. Brick with Welsh slate roof. No. 6 is a 3-window range of 2 storeys with central entrance with added porch. 12-pane sash windows to ground floor, with wide splayed heads. Central upper window blind. End wall stacks in hipped roof. The single-storeyed wing to the left originally workshops, now a separate dwelling (Armoury Mews). Some original openings with characteristic wide splayed heads still visible. Several windows inserted in C20 when converted to dwelling.
Included in the listing is the short stretch of boundary wall, with a heavy pier with chamfered stone capital, separating Armoury Mews from London Road.

Listing NGR: SJ5088511678

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26560748

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Recommended Books

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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (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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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)