Description

SJ 2829 NE OSWESTRY C.P. WILLOW STREET

(south-west side)
Former malthouse
13/133 attached to right
- side of The Willow
Tree

GV II

Theatre, later malthouse, now disused. Circa 1819 with later additions
and alterations. Red brick with uncoursed limestone rubble to left
side and regularly coursed limestone to rear gable, slate roof with
gable at right-angles to street. 3 levels, stone band with widely
spaced dentils to front gable and brick dentilled eaves cornices to
left and right; 3 bays, central forming slightly projecting break,
segmental-headed fixed-light windows with door to lower right, infilled
roundel to gable; right return also has 3 tiers of segmental-headed
windows with double doors, one on each floor, to left; infilled round-
headed arch to rear gable. Mid- to late C19 two-storey gabled range to
rear. Interior: inspection not possible at time of re-survey (August
1985) but said to retain features from use as malthouse; theatre fittings
all removed. Opened as a theatre in 1819 but converted to malthouse in
1850s. Isaac Watkin, Oswestry (1920) p. 151.

Listing NGR: SJ2882829813

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q33008707

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Recommended Books

• 
  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990