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Latitude: 52.7081 / 52°42'29"N
Longitude: -2.7544 / 2°45'15"W
OS Eastings: 349125
OS Northings: 312536
OS Grid: SJ491125
Mapcode National: GBR BJ.2GKZ
Mapcode Global: WH8BT.N6K7
Plus Code: 9C4VP65W+66
Entry Name: 1 and 2 Mardol Head
Listing Date: 17 November 1995
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1270692
English Heritage Legacy ID: 457607
ID on this website: 101270692
Location: Shrewsbury, 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
Tagged with: Architectural structure
This List entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 21/05/2019
SJ 4912 NW
653-1/11/428
SHREWSBURY
MARDOL HEAD (north west side)
Nos. 1 and 2
(Formerly listed as previously Nos. 1, 2 and 3, Mardol Head, previously listed as Alliance and Leicester Building Society)
GV
II
Office premises, purpose built. 1903. Ashlar-faced over brick with Welsh slate roof. Two-and-a-half storeys with curved corner on angle of Mardol Head and High Street, and three window range to Mardol Head. Free Renaissance style. Inserted shop front to Mardol Head elevation, and oriel window with leaded lights, cornice and shallow scrolled pediment above. Small paired mullioned and transomed windows and inscribed lettering, "Royal Insurance Company" in half-storey below. Gabled dormer to left and axial stack. Pilasters articulate the left-hand bay, which has mullioned windows on each floor. Cupola recessed behind with ribbed dome carried on turned wood balusters. Oriel window over door across angle, with curved moulded base, also inscribed "R.I.S.". Full-height mullioned and transomed window over across the curve, flanked by leaded lights in scrolled pediments, and with ribbed domed leaded roof above. Rainwater head to left with date. Moulded eaves cornice with finials. Stack on left-hand gable. A dramatic and skillful articulation of this important corner site.
Listing NGR: SJ4912512536
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