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Latitude: 52.7108 / 52°42'39"N
Longitude: -2.7508 / 2°45'2"W
OS Eastings: 349373
OS Northings: 312839
OS Grid: SJ493128
Mapcode National: GBR BJ.29GS
Mapcode Global: WH8BT.Q494
Plus Code: 9C4VP66X+8M
Entry Name: Library, Former Blower's Repository
Listing Date: 17 November 1995
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1246557
English Heritage Legacy ID: 455422
ID on this website: 101246557
Location: Shrewsbury, Shropshire, SY1
County: Shropshire
Civil Parish: Shrewsbury
Built-Up Area: Shrewsbury
Traditional County: Shropshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Shropshire
Church of England Parish: Shrewsbury St Chad
Church of England Diocese: Lichfield
Tagged with: Library building
SJ4912NW
653-1/11/157
SHREWSBURY
CASTLE GATES
(West side)
Library, former Blower's Repository
GV
II
Store and offices, now in use as library offices. Dated 1902.
Brick with mock timber facade, ashlar porch and plain tiled
roof. 2 storeys, 2-window range with advanced gable to the
right. Full-height porch to left, with round-arched entrance,
and mullioned and transomed windows above, with leaded lights.
Inscribed "Blowers Repository" over the archway. Original shop
front in right hand gable, with high fascia with moulded
consoles. Upper storey has mock timbering with decorative
panels forming baluster-like arcading, and with moulded
bressumer to jettied second storey. Herringbone struts and
cusped braces in gable apex. Shallow oriel window over, with
leaded lights, and paired 3-light mullioned and transomed
windows in the gable, with enriched tie beam over, bearing the
date.
Listing NGR: SJ4937312839
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