Description

SHREWSBURY

SJ4912NW CHURCH STREET
653-1/11/181 (North West side)
10/01/53 Nos.6, 7 AND 8
Prince Rupert Hotel

GV II*

House, now hotel. Largely early C17, but built in several
phases. Timber-framed with brick lower storey and plain tiled
roof.
2 storeys with high gabled attics, 4-window range. Ground
floor rebuilt in brick and all features renewed: outer double
doorway and 5 casement windows with mullions and transoms.
Jettied upper storey with moulded bressumers, built in 3
phases. The outer bays are probably the earliest: left hand
bay largely plastered over, with only corner post and wall
plate visible. 3 light casement window, with another in the
gabled dormer above. Right-hand bay framed with close studding
and mid rail, with long raking tension braces. Projecting
4-light wood mullioned and transomed window, and a 3-light
casement in the wide attic gable. Central section of 2 bays,
framed with close studding with a tier of quatrefoil panelling
above the middle rail, and ogee braces below it. Quatrefoil
panelling and balustraded studs below the 2-gabled attic
dormers. Stack on gable end of this central block.

Listing NGR: SJ4928712526

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17542429

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Recommended Books

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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)