Description

SHREWSBURY

SJ41SE ASHTON ROAD
653-1/4/81 (South East side)
Shrewsbury School, Moser's Hall

GV II

School house. 1884-6. By William White of Wimpole Street. Red
brick with brighter red brick dressings and plain tiled roofs
with cresting. 3 storeys, principal elevation to Greville Road
of 4 gables stepped down the slope and irregularly
fenestrated. Return elevation to Ashton Road of 3 bays.
Entrance to right of centre of Greville Road elevation, in
moulded brick archway beneath hipped roofed porch between 2
gables. Stairhall to right of doorway beneath stone coped
gable, lit by stone traceried window. Full height canted bay
window with wood mullioned and transomed lights in right-hand
gable. 2 gables beyond the stair hall, with 4-light mullioned
and transomed squared bay window to ground floor of right-hand
gable, 2-light mullioned and transomed windows above. The
gables are divided by a short range with 3 grouped
single-light windows on each floor. Stacks with star-shaped
shafts towards front of each gable.
Elevation to Ashton Road has entrance in porch to right, then
2 gables divided by a single-window range. Paired 2-light
windows to lower floor of each gable, 3 grouped single-light
windows to first floor and attic of right-hand gable, 4-light
mullioned and transomed window on each floor of left-hand
gable. Both have tile-hung apexes, and there is some diaper
work in the left-hand gable.
A carefully articulated and early essay in the Domestic
Revival Manner, both by one of the principal architects of the
Victorian period and also significant as part of a good group
of buildings commissioned by Shrewsbury School in the late
C19.

Listing NGR: SJ4856611819

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26538817

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Recommended Books

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)