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56, High Street

A Grade II Listed Building in Whitchurch, Shropshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.9702 / 52°58'12"N

Longitude: -2.685 / 2°41'5"W

OS Eastings: 354094

OS Northings: 341646

OS Grid: SJ540416

Mapcode National: GBR 7L.JVPF

Mapcode Global: WH89H.QLMV

Plus Code: 9C4VX8C8+32

Entry Name: 56, High Street

Listing Date: 1 March 1988

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1178300

English Heritage Legacy ID: 260660

ID on this website: 101178300

Location: Whitchurch, Shropshire, SY13

County: Shropshire

Civil Parish: Whitchurch Urban

Built-Up Area: Whitchurch

Traditional County: Shropshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Shropshire

Church of England Parish: Whitchurch St Alkmund

Church of England Diocese: Lichfield

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Description


WHITCHURCH URBAN C.P. HIGH STREET (south-west SJ 5441 side) 8/104 No. 56 - GV II

House, now shop and surgery. Early to mid-C18. Red brick, painted to front, with some sandstone dressings. Plain tile roof. 2 storeys. Chamfered stone quoins and parapeted gable ends with rounded copings and moulded stone kneelers. 3 bays; tall plate-glass first-floor sashes with painted moulded stone cills and painted gauged-brick heads with raised keystones. Central window blocked. Late C20 shopfront with plate- glass window to left and half-glazed door to right. Sun fire insurance plate (No. 414194) between central blocked first-floor window and right- hand window. Interior: post-1720 eighteenth century dog-leg staircase (now only from first floor to attic) with open string, column-on-vase balusters (2 per tread), moulded handrail and square newel posts. C18 first-floor door between front and rear ranges with 2 raised and fielded panels.

Listing NGR: SJ5409441645

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