Description

SHREWSBURY

SJ5012SW MONKMOOR ROAD
653-1/17/447 (East side)
30/05/69 Whitehall

GV II*

House, now in use as government offices. 1578-1582. Built for
Richard Prince. Coursed and squared red sandstone with plain
tiled roofs and internal timber-frame.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with basements and attics, square in plan,
with 3 gables on each elevation. Principal rooms in the 4
angles, lesser rooms in centre of each elevation, the original
layout now partially obscured by later partitions.
Central entrance in stone porch probably added in early C17,
the doorway approached up steps in the return elevation of the
porch. Triglyph frieze below parapet.
Windows throughout with some lozenge glazing, of 4 and 2
lights to ground floor, 4-lights above, and 3-lights in gabled
attics. Central timbered octagonal belvedere with leaded
windows and ogee lead roof capped by weather vane. Fluted
brick chimneys on 3 sides. Round-arched rear entrance with
long segmentally-arched porch roof carried on spiked ball
finials on stone piers.
INTERIOR: the original staircase survives, with heavy turned
balusters, newels with ball finials and moulded rail. Most
internal panelling replaced, but plaster ceiling of hall
survives - lozenges containing roses, thistles, in low relief.
Small room on first floor with monochrome painted panels
superimposed on timber-framed partition walls - abstract
scheme composed of arabesques, fleurs-de-lys, roses. Exposed
timber-framing in upper storeys and roof.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the house was built on land taken from the
estates of Shrewsbury Abbey, and probably employs stone taken
from abbey buildings. A fine and significant example of a late
C16 house built to a compact plan form.
(Country Life: Tipping HA: Country Homes and Gardens Old and
New: Whitehall, Shropshire: 1920-: 200-206; Leach F: The
Country Seats of Shropshire: 1891-).

Listing NGR: SJ5023412495

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17542597

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  For the Record
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