The Mount is a Grade II* listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1953. House, office. 2 related planning applications.
The Mount
- WRENN ID
- vacant-moulding-harvest
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1953
- Type
- House, office
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SHREWSBURY
SJ41SE FRANKWELL 653-1/4/329 (North East side) 10/01/53 The Mount
II*
House, now in use as offices. c1800. Brick with stone dressings and roof not visible behind parapet. 3 storeys, 5-window range to main block with lower flanking wings. Central door in porch with Tuscan columns supporting entablature with triglyph frieze. 12-pane sash windows with flat-arched finely gauged brick heads. Windows over door in stressed stone architraves. Continuous sill band to first floor. Stone cornice and parapet. Single-storeyed 4-window range to left with blank arcading containing 12-pane sash windows. 2-storey single-window range added to right, and a lower bay beyond with canted bay window and lantern light over. Gable end stacks. INTERIOR: elaborate plasterwork decoration to some ground floor rooms, and cantilevered stone stair with cast-iron balusters. HISTORICAL NOTE: the house was the birthplace of Charles Darwin in 1809.
Listing NGR: SJ4852913069
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