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Latitude: 52.7077 / 52°42'27"N
Longitude: -2.7534 / 2°45'12"W
OS Eastings: 349196
OS Northings: 312489
OS Grid: SJ491124
Mapcode National: GBR BJ.2GTS
Mapcode Global: WH8BT.P62K
Plus Code: 9C4VP65W+3M
Entry Name: 15 and 16, High Street
Listing Date: 10 January 1953
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1254512
English Heritage Legacy ID: 457321
ID on this website: 101254512
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 Alkmund
Church of England Diocese: Lichfield
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SHREWSBURY
SJ4912SW HIGH STREET
653-1/15/347 (North East side)
10/01/53 Nos.15 AND 16
II*
Formerly known as: Cross Keys Inn.
Inn, now shop. Timber-framed with plain tiled roof. Dated
1575.
2 storeys, 2-window range with inserted late C20 shop front to
ground floor. Right-hand bay projects, perhaps as former
full-height porch. Jettied with moulded bressumer, close
studding with middle rail and herringbone studding in side
walls. 4-pane sash window inserted at first floor.
Left-hand section also formerly jettied, with moulded
bressumer, and square panelling with twisted shafts
superimposed on vertical members and sunk quatrefoils in the
horizontal. Inserted 4-pane sash window. Some panel infill
renewed in brick and painted over. Single segmentally-arched
dormer window in roof.
Return elevation to Grope Lane framed and decorated in similar
manner with wide gable over shop front, with 6-pane sash
window, and renewed plaque bearing date, 1575. Lower jettied
central range with close studding links this gable with a
narrower upper gable, with 5-light mullioned and transomed
window and projecting casement in gable apex. Beyond this a
further 2 bays, the ground floor renewed, but moulded
bressumer to jettied upper storey, with close studding.
Mullioned and transomed windows of 2 and 4 lights are late C19
insertions. Loading door and hoist in gabled dormer.
(Smith JT: Shrewsbury: Topography and Domestic Architecture to
the Mid C17: 1953-).
Listing NGR: SJ4921712491
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