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Murivance House and Allatt House

A Grade II Listed Building in Shrewsbury, Shropshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.706 / 52°42'21"N

Longitude: -2.7575 / 2°45'26"W

OS Eastings: 348915

OS Northings: 312307

OS Grid: SJ489123

Mapcode National: GBR BJ.2MT9

Mapcode Global: WH8BT.M73V

Plus Code: 9C4VP64V+C2

Entry Name: Murivance House and Allatt House

Listing Date: 10 January 1953

Last Amended: 17 November 1995

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1254663

English Heritage Legacy ID: 457700

ID on this website: 101254663

Location: Shrewsbury, Shropshire, SY1

County: Shropshire

Civil Parish: Shrewsbury

Built-Up Area: Shrewsbury

Traditional County: Shropshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Shropshire

Church of England Parish: Shrewsbury St Chad

Church of England Diocese: Lichfield

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Description



SHREWSBURY

SJ4812SE MURIVANCE
653-1/14/457 (North East side)
10/01/53 Murivance House and Allatt House
(Formerly Listed as:
MURIVANCE
Former Allatt's School)

GV II

Formerly known as: Shrewsbury Corporation Health Centre
MURIVANCE.
School, now pair of offices. c1800. By John Hiram Haycock. For
John Allatt. Ashlar facing over brick, with hipped Welsh slate
roof. Symmetrical composition, with central block and lower
flanking ranges.
Central block of 2 storeys, and 4 bays with outer doorways
with 6-panelled doors with overlights in architraves with flat
entablatures. Windows are 12-pane sashes, the central blind,
though glazed. Plinth, sill band and eaves parapet with raised
panel in the cornice, inscribed "Founded by John Allatt gent
MDCCC."
To each side of this central block, flanking pavilions are
linked to the main block by triple-arched arcade now glazed
with door and windows. The outer sections are each of 2 bays,
with full-height recesses housing 12-pane sash windows. Plinth
and parapet. Sundial with incised numerals in return wall of
right-hand pavilion.


Listing NGR: SJ4891512307

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