Latitude: 52.7177 / 52°43'3"N
Longitude: -2.7457 / 2°44'44"W
OS Eastings: 349725
OS Northings: 313598
OS Grid: SJ497135
Mapcode National: GBR BJ.1YHY
Mapcode Global: WH8BM.SYQF
Plus Code: 9C4VP793+3P
Entry Name: 55, St Michael's Street
Listing Date: 17 November 1995
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1254865
English Heritage Legacy ID: 458175
ID on this website: 101254865
Location: Greenfields, Shropshire, SY1
County: Shropshire
Civil Parish: Shrewsbury
Built-Up Area: Shrewsbury
Traditional County: Shropshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Shropshire
Church of England Parish: Shrewsbury All Saints and St Michael
Church of England Diocese: Lichfield
Tagged with: Building
SHREWSBURY
SJ41SE ST MICHAEL'S STREET, Ditherington 653-1/4/747 (North West side) No.55
GV II
House, formerly clerk's house to Benyon and Bage's flax mill. c1800. John Simpson, architect and builder. Brick with hipped Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys with basement storey to rear, 3-window range. Central 4-panelled door with overlight in architrave flanked by 12-pane sash windows with flat-arched brick heads. 9-pane sash windows to upper storey. Side wall and axial stacks. The house is built of "great bricks" which link it decisively with the flax mill complex (qv) where they were used in all building work prior to 1805. (Macleod M, Trinder B & Worthington M: Ditherington Flax Mill, Shrewsbury: Ironbridge Institute: 1988-).
Listing NGR: SJ4972513598
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