Description

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 19/08/2011

SJ4912NW
653-1/11/150

SHREWSBURY
CASTLE GATES
(East side)
Nos.18 AND 19
Lucroft Hotel (18)
(Formerly listed as Ludcroft Hotel)

GV

II

Hotel and shop. c1900. Mock timber in the Shrewsbury style
with Welsh slate roof. 3 storeys with attic, 5-window range.
Mock framing in close studding with arcaded panels and
balustrading. Possible original shop front across the entire
facade incorporating doorway to right with moulded console
brackets to fascia. First floor has 2 oriel windows with
Ipswich glazing flanked by 2-light mullioned and transomed
windows, all with leaded lights. Moulded bressumer to jettied
second storey, with casement windows of 2 and 4 lights. Coved
eaves cornice and 2 gabled dormers with enriched cambered
collars and barge-boards with pendant finial.

Listing NGR: SJ4939112846

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26561253

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)