Description

SJ 2829 NE OSWESTRY C.P. WILLOW STREET

(south-west side) Former malthouse 13/133 attached to right - side of The Willow Tree GV II

Theatre, later malthouse, now disused. Circa 1819 with later additions and alterations. Red brick with uncoursed limestone rubble to left side and regularly coursed limestone to rear gable, slate roof with gable at right-angles to street. 3 levels, stone band with widely spaced dentils to front gable and brick dentilled eaves cornices to left and right; 3 bays, central forming slightly projecting break, segmental-headed fixed-light windows with door to lower right, infilled roundel to gable; right return also has 3 tiers of segmental-headed windows with double doors, one on each floor, to left; infilled round- headed arch to rear gable. Mid- to late C19 two-storey gabled range to rear. Interior: inspection not possible at time of re-survey (August 1985) but said to retain features from use as malthouse; theatre fittings all removed. Opened as a theatre in 1819 but converted to malthouse in 1850s. Isaac Watkin, Oswestry (1920) p. 151.

Listing NGR: SJ2882829813

External Links

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