16 And 17, Castle Street

SHREWSBURY

SJ4912NW CASTLE STREET 653-1/11/166 (North West side) 19/09/72 Nos.16 AND 17

GV II

Shop. Early C19, with facade of the C20. Mock timber facade over brick, with plain tiled roof. 2 storeys, 3-window range with shop front of three 4-centred arched bays with central doorway with carved spandrels and leaded upper lights to windows. Late C20 fascia and canopy over. Upper windows are leaded casements of 2 lights, flanking a 6-light central window, and there is a 2-light casement in the central attic gable. Mock timber-framing is close studding with ogee arched braces. Enriched barge-boards to gable. Return elevation to School Gardens is brick wing running back from this street block. Painted brick, 3 storeys, with inserted double doors and window to ground floor, 12-pane sash windows above (20-panes to attic), with flat-arched heads. Projecting added square oriel at first floor, with leaded upper lights and carved floral frieze. Dentilled eaves band.

Listing NGR: SJ4933512735