Description

SHREWSBURY

SJ4912SW ST ALKMOND'S SQUARE 653-1/15/527 (South side) 19/09/72 St Julian's House (Formerly Listed as: ST ALKMOND'S SQUARE (South side) St Julian's Vicarage)

GV II

Former vicarage, now a private house. Visible detail largely late C19, but with possible C17 core. Mock timber over brick lower storey, with plain tiled roof. 2 storeys with attic, 3 bays, with outer gables and central full-height gabled porch. with stone plinth and quatrefoil panelled timbering above, and a continuous range of mullioned windows with leaded lights over the 4-centred arched door which has "Abide with me" inscribed in the lintel. A further inscription on the central mullion reads, "Hold up my going in thy paths". Ornate barge-boards to gable over. Asymmetrical fenestration in the outer gabled bays, with small doorway to left, and a 2-light casement window with stone quoins, balanced by a similar window on the right. Immediately left of porch is a series of 3 foiled lancets, and there is a single lancet window to its right. Traces of earlier blue and red Flemish bond brickwork in the right-hand section. Ornate mock timbering to upper storeys, with close studding with quatrefoil panels, balustrading, lozenges, and ogee braces. In the left-hand bay at first-floor level is a slightly projecting mullioned and transomed window, with decorative leaded cames. The right-hand window is a full oriel. There are 2-light mullioned and transomed windows beneath the gables, which have slightly jettied apexes. Rear wall and gable end stacks. Traces of earlier brickwork in rear wall, which is timber framed with brick nogging.

Listing NGR: SJ4931612465

External Links

• Wikidata Q26685321

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