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55, St Michael's Street

A Grade II Listed Building in Shrewsbury, Shropshire

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Coordinates

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

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Description



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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