The Sandbrook Vaults

SJ 6634-6734; 13/79

MARKET DRAYTON C.P., SHROPSHIRE STREET (north-west side), No. 4 (The Sandbrook Vaults)

(Formerly listed as Sandbrook's Vaults)

07.05.52

GV

II

House, now inn. Dated 1653. Timber-framed with plastered infill on rendered plinth. Plain tile roof. Framing: ground-floor closely- spaced studs with middle rail. First floor with diagonal struts forming chevron patterns. Attic with tier of quatrefoil panels beneath eaves. Jettied first floor and attic, each with carved brackets supporting carved bressumers (pairs of opposed dragons to first floor and vine trail to attic) with ovolo moulding to lower edge. Three framed bays. Two storeys and attic. Pair of large timber-framed gabled full dormers to right with C20 three-light metal casements and rendered gables. Integral lateral brick stack at front to right. Three first-floor windows; pair of C20 three- light metal casements to right and C19 three light small-paned window to left. Pair of ground-floor C20 three-light small-paned windows to left. Pair of ground-floor C20 three-light small-paned wooden casements. nail-studded boarded door with decorative wrought-iron strap hinges, between windows just off-centre to right. Passageway to left has nail-studded boarded door with decorative wrought-iron strap hinges and ovolo-moulded reveals. Inscribed date beneath first-floor bressumer to left: "M 16 R E 53". Ground floor windows replace C17 oriels (see square and diamond mortices in underside of first-floor bressumer and sections of bressumer without lower moulding), the left-hand window of three lights and the right hand of four lights. Centre section of attic bressumer has been replaced. Passageway to left has square-panelled framed side wall with carpenters marks, brick nogging and sandstone plinth. Chamfered corner post at rear. INTERIOR: two pairs of ovolo-moulded spine beams. Corner fireplace in right-hand room. Only the ground floor inspected. No. 4, Shropshire Street forms an impressive continuous range with No. 2 Shropshire Street and Nos. 1 and 3, Cheshire Street (q.v.) B.o.E., p.196.

Listing NGR: SJ6752034141