Description

SHREWSBURY

SJ4912SW HIGH STREET
653-1/15/363 (South West side)
The Wheatsheaf Public House

GV II

Public house. c1900 facade over earlier core. Mock
timber-framing in the Shrewsbury style, with plain tiled roof.
2 storeys with attic dormers, 3-window range. Doorway across
angle of High Street and Milk Street, then a continuous public
house frontage, with paired segmentally-arched leaded windows
each side of a doorway, and a further door to the right.
Continuous fascia carried on console brackets over. Upper
windows are tall 2-light casements. Ornate mock framing, with
quatrefoil frieze, ogival tension bracing and close studding,
with arcaded decoration below the eaves. 3 gabled dormers in
the roof. Axial and gable wall stacks.

Listing NGR: SJ4924812397

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26560769

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Recommended Books

• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)