Description

SHREWSBURY

SJ4912NE ABBEY FOREGATE 653-1/12/12 (North side) 30/05/69 Nos.29 AND 31

GV II

Pair of houses. Early C18 facade with C17 or earlier core. Timber-framed, encased in brick and refronted. Plain tiled roof. 2 storeys and attic, 5-window range. Outer doorways, that to left in moulded architrave with console brackets to entablature, that to right a simple 4-panelled door with overlight. Central arch to passageway, with wood mullioned and transomed windows of 2 and 3 lights. Blind central upper window flanked by 2-light wood mullioned and transomed windows. Windows all have segmentally-arched heads with keystones, those on the ground floor linking to aprons beneath the upper windows. Moulded string course over first-floor windows. 2 wide gables with 2-light casement windows. Axial stack. Framing exposed in gable walls. Heavy square panelling in lower wall, timber of slighter scantling above, suggesting a second phase.

Listing NGR: SJ4981512512

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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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)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)