Description

SHREWSBURY

SJ4912SW WYLE COP
653-1/15/731 (South side)
10/01/53 Nos.77 AND 78

GV II

Pair of shops, probably originally 2 dwellings. c1730. Brick
with plain tiled roof.
3 storeys and attic, 4-window range. Inserted shop fronts to
ground floor each side of wide central segmental archway, with
keystone capped by plaster urn, to passage to rear. Left-hand
shop front is late C19, with elaborate consoles to fascia. 3
segmentally-arched 12-pane sash windows above, with gauged
brick heads and stone keystones, and tripartite sash a later
insertion to right. Central window over passageway has small
balcony with cast-iron rails. 6 upper windows are all
segmentally-arched 12-pane sashes with gauged brick heads and
stone keystones. Angle quoins, modillion eaves cornice. Coped
gables with moulded kneelers. Gable end stacks. Roof light in
left-hand unit, 2 inserted or altered dormers to right. Rear
wings with crow stepped gables, and mutilated datestone in
gable apex, 173-.

Listing NGR: SJ4931212377

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26546727

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Recommended Books

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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)