Description

SHREWSBURY

SJ41SE ASHTON ROAD
653-1/4/82 (North West side)
Shrewsbury School, Rigg's Hall

GV II

School house, c1882-4. William White of Wimpole Street. Simple
domestic Gothic style. Brick with plain tiled roofs with ridge
cresting. 2 and 3 storeys, with parallel rear range and rear
wings. Irregularly fenestrated. Entrance to left in angle with
advanced rear range, in lean-to porch carried on raking timber
struts. 2-storeyed 4-window range beyond, with full-height
canted bay windows with hipped tiled roofs, tiled aprons and
mullioned and transomed lights. Front and end wall stacks with
star shaped flues. 3-storey 2-window range advanced beyond,
with wood mullioned and transomed windows, with brick arched
heads to ground and first floor, hipped dormers in attic
storey. End wall stacks.
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: SJ4860211917

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26561329

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Recommended Books

• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy