Description

SHREWSBURY

SJ4912NW CHURCH STREET
653-1/11/182 (South East side)
10/01/53 No.1
Loggerheads Public House
(Formerly Listed as:
CHURCH STREET
(South side)
No.1
Shrewsbury Arms Inn)

GV II

House, now public house. Early C18 with later alterations.
Painted brick with plain tiled roof. 3 storeys, 3-window
range. Doorway to right of centre with overlight in moulded
architrave with small canopy over, possibly marking the
original gable end of the building (stone quoins in wall above
it). Public house windows flank the doorway, with architraves
with high entablature and hood. Small inserted window to left.
Upper windows are irregularly spaced flush-framed 9-pane
sashes (6 panes to second storey). Dentilled string course
forms sill band of second storey. Stack on right-hand gable.
Small single-storey extension of the later C19 to right, with
small-paned public house window and door beneath a single
projecting fascia or hood. Forms a single build with No.17 St
Mary's Street (qv).
INTERIOR: entry to left leads to small lobby with door to bar
on the right. Ground floor has room plan intact and consists
of Gentleman's Bar, Bar, Lounge and Snug. The Gentleman's Bar
has a timber partition to the corridor with borrowed glazing
along the top and is lined on one wall with reused C16 oak
panelling. Fixed bench seating. Victorian inglenook-style
fireplace across the corner with bracketed shelf above.
Servery hatches in passage to bars. Small snug to rear has
padded bench seating to perimeter, and door opening has small
ogee architraves. Lounge bar has servery hatch to central bar
and separate door through lobby into Church Street. Central
bar has main bar area across the room parallel to Church
Street. 2 bench settles, plain dado, ogee picture rail and
architraves to door.

Listing NGR: SJ4929712511

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26561108

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Recommended Books

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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)