Description

SHREWSBURY

SJ4912NW SCHOOL GARDENS
653-1/11/602 (West side)
10/01/53 Nos.3A AND 4
School Chambers
(Formerly Listed as:
SCHOOL GARDENS
(North West side)
No.3A
Dugdale's Antique Shop)
(Formerly Listed as:
SCHOOL GARDENS
(North West side)
Premises occupied by Henn Vale &
Sons (Quantity Surveyors))

GV II

Shop, formerly dwelling. c1600, with additions of c1900.
Timber-framed with plain tiled roof, extended in brick with
mock timbering. 3 parallel ranges with gables facing street,
the original structure to the centre.
Original structure framed in small square panels with enriched
quatrefoil decoration, billet moulded cross beam, and close
studding with quatrefoil panels in gable apex. Inserted C20
shop front to ground floor, and 3-light casement window above.
Fluted brick axial stack. This range now flanked by 2
additional gabled ranges, with inserted shop fronts to ground
floor, and mock timbering above.
Rear range at right angles to the original building probably
added in early C18. Painted brick with plain tiled roof.
Doorway with overlight to left, and three 12-pane sashes to
ground floor and 12-pane sashes above. Deep modillion eaves
cornice to overhanging roof. Curved coping to gable, with end
wall stack.
INTERIOR to this section contains fine early C18 open-well
staircase with turned balusters and closed string and
ground-floor room to right has fielded panelling. Single bay
addition to this range, possibly early C19 with 12-pane sash
in each floor.

Listing NGR: SJ4934112755

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26546483

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Recommended Books

• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
• 
  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)