Description

SHREWSBURY

SJ4912NW WINDSOR PLACE
653-1/11/696 (South West side)
10/01/53 Windsor House

GV II*

House now offices. Late C18. Brick with Welsh slate and plain
tiled roofs.
Main range of 3 storeys and 5-window range with central door
in Ionic case with fluted pilasters. Flush-framed 12-pane sash
windows with flat-arched gauged brick heads with stressed
brick keys. Parapet with narrow stone cornice. Curved coped
gable walls. To the left, a further range is a separate and
later construction: long front wall with a single 12-pane sash
window on each floor, and curved gable end with 12-pane sashes
with flat-arched stuccoed heads.
INTERIOR: an almost complete late C18 interior, with central
staircase with alternately turned and twisted balusters, swept
moulded rail, carved tread ends and dado panelling. Principal
rooms all have complete wall panelling, with Corinthian
pilasters in one lower room, and ornate panelling over doors
and marble fireplaces in upper rooms. Upper right-hand room
panelled with Corinthian pilasters and heavy cornice, enriched
in marquetry and said to be wych-elm.

Listing NGR: SJ4934412652

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17565182

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)