Description

SHREWSBURY

SJ4912NW
653-1/11/356
10/01/53

HIGH STREET
(South West side)
Nos.29, 30 AND 31
Ireland's Mansion

GV
II*

House, now divided into shops and offices. c1575. For John
Ireland, wool merchant. Timber-framed with plain tiled roof. 3
storeys and attics, 4 bays. 3 ground-floor shop fronts
inserted early C20, and shallow arched doorways with moulded
architraves and enriched spandrels leading to internal
passageways between them. Corbelled out over the ground floor,
alternately squared and semi-octagonal canted bays project,
with slightly projecting oriel windows in each square bay, and
sash windows in the canted bays. Oriel windows in each recess
between the projecting bays. Each tier of bays overhangs
slightly, and the entire second storey is jettied out. The
upper storeys are framed with close studding, with twisted
shafts on vertical members, and some ogival tension bracing.
Over each bay, a stilted gable, with 2-light casement window,
carved bressumer, barge-boards with finials and king-post
framing with herringbone bracing. Gable and axial stacks.
INTERIOR: no original features survive.

Listing NGR: SJ4913512526

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17542541

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