Description

SJ 6634-6734
13/72

MARKET DRAYTON C.P.
SHROPSHIRE STREET
(south-east side)
Nos. 43 and 45
(Badgers Court)

GV
II

House, now 2 shops and flat. Dated 1651, with mid-to late C19 alterations.
Rendered timber framing and plain tile roof. L-plan; 2 framed bays (formerly
jettied to front) with rear wing. 2 storeys. 2 gables to front. Brick stack behind ridge
just off-centre to right. 3-window front: first-floor segmental-headed 4-pane sashes. shop-fronts
consisting of probably mid-C20 projecting 3 x 1 plate glass windows with
fascia and late C19 surround with carved brackets supporting moulded cornice;
recessed doorway with mid-C19 surround consisting of flanking convex pilaster
strips with roundels above and panel above door. Lean-to addition in
angle at rear. Reset doorway in rear wing with 4 raised and fielded panels.
Interior: square-panelled timber framed right-hand end and rear walls
(rear wall with exposed wattle and daub and woven-lath panels). Ovolo-
moulded spine beams. Formerly jettied first floor; bressumer with sunk
chamfer, carved geometrical patterns, and dated "1651 .:. GS"; evidence
of former moulded sub-bressumer or brackets (see each end). Inserted
C19 cast-iron posts to support first floor. Re-ordered C17 panelling,
some in rear corridor with carved blind arcading and frieze. Late C17
door with 6 raised and fielded panels also in rear corridor. Local people
report complete framing with expressed pegs, noted when the render was
removed

Listing NGR: SJ6743434050

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26594318

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Recommended Books

• 
  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)