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Latitude: 52.7065 / 52°42'23"N
Longitude: -2.7497 / 2°44'58"W
OS Eastings: 349443
OS Northings: 312352
OS Grid: SJ494123
Mapcode National: GBR BJ.2HQY
Mapcode Global: WH8BT.Q7TH
Plus Code: 9C4VP742+H4
Entry Name: 28, 29 and 30, Wyle Cop
Listing Date: 10 January 1953
Last Amended: 17 November 1995
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1254993
English Heritage Legacy ID: 458542
ID on this website: 101254993
Location: Coleham, Shropshire, SY1
County: Shropshire
Civil Parish: Shrewsbury
Built-Up Area: Shrewsbury
Traditional County: Shropshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Shropshire
Church of England Parish: Shrewsbury St Chad
Church of England Diocese: Lichfield
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SHREWSBURY
SJ4912SW WYLE COP
653-1/15/715 (North side)
10/01/53 Nos.28, 29 AND 30
(Formerly Listed as:
WYLE COP
(North East side)
Nos.28, 29 AND 30
Unicorn Hotel)
GV II
Formerly known as: Unicorn Hotel and Garage of Messrs. Wales &
Edwards Ltd WYLE COP.
2 shops, formerly hotel. Late C16 with extensive restoration
of 1890. Timber-framed with plain tiled roof.
2 and 3 storeys, 6-window range with central archway to rear
courtyard dividing the building into 2 distinct sections.
Framed in close studding with small quatrefoil panels and
middle rail, and jettied upper storey. Left-hand section has
inserted shop windows in traditional style with arched lights,
and two 3-light oriel windows in the jettied upper floor.
3-light casements in paired gables which have barge-boards
with pendant finials. Shop windows continue in return under
archway. Single 4-light casement window over high central
carriage archway.
Right-hand section extensively modified in 1890. Ground floor
is of brick with stone dressings. Doorway to left, and 2
windows with small leaded upper panes. Additional storey in
this section beneath the jetty, taking account of sloping
site. This has one 3-light oriel window, and a 3-light leaded
mullioned and transomed window. Above the jetty, 3 mullioned
and transomed windows of 3 and 4 leaded lights. Rear wings
each side of the archway also partly timber-framed. Gable and
axial stacks.
Listing NGR: SJ4944312352
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