Description

SHREWSBURY

SJ41SE SEVERN STREET
653-1/4/608 (North East side)
28/08/75 Nos.5-9 (Consecutive)
(Formerly Listed as:
SEVERN STREET
(North East side)
Nos.1-17)

GV II

Row of 5 houses, formerly a weaving factory. Original
structure c1806-1809, adapted and refronted c1860. Brick with
Welsh slate roof, over iron-framed structure.
3 storeys, 5-window range. Single and paired doorways, the
paired 6-panelled doors with overlights beneath single
architraves. 12-pane sash windows on each floor, with wide
splayed flat-arched heads, some painted. Plain oversailing
eaves, axial stacks. Equal height of storeys, irregular window
spacing, and traces of additional blocked openings between the
windows on the upper floors are the external clues to the
building's former use.
INTERIOR: the cruciform cast-iron columns, beams and brick
arched fire-proof ceilings of the iron-framed structure
remain.
Built as a weaving factory for Benyon and Bage's Canal
Terminus flax mill.

Listing NGR: SJ4974813111

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26546485

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Recommended Books

• 
  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)