Description

SHREWSBURY

SJ41SE ASHTON ROAD
653-1/4/80 (North West side)
Shrewsbury School, Churchill's Hall

GV II

School house. c1882. William White of Wimpole Street. Brick
with plain tiled roofs. Domestic Gothic style, asymmetrically
planned. 2 parallel ranges of 2 storeys, with a 3-storey
2-window range block to right of centre, parallel rear ranges
and wings.
Entrance in advanced rear range of 2-storey block, in lean-to
porch carried on chamfered timber shafts. 2 full-height canted
bay windows with wood mullioned and transomed lights,
tile-hung aprons, and hipped roofs. Ground-floor canted bay
window beyond, with 3-light mullioned and transomed window
above beneath gable. Slightly advanced gable to right, with
3-light mullioned and transomed windows in each floor, and
tile-hung gable apex. Front wall, axial and gable end stacks
with star shaped shafts.
Taller block to right a 2-window range with 3-light mullioned
and transomed windows with shallow segmental heads, and
half-hipped dormers over attic windows. 2-storeyed 3-window
range beyond, with mullioned and transomed lower windows with
segmentally-arched brick heads, and dormer windows above. End
wall stacks with star-shaped shafts.
A carefully articulated and early essay in the Domestic
Revival Manner, both by one of the principal architects of the
Victorian period and also significant as part of a good group
of buildings commissioned by Shrewsbury School in the late
C19.

Listing NGR: SJ4850211855

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26561299

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Recommended Books

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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]