St Winefride'S Convent (Part)

SHREWSBURY

SJ4912SW COLLEGE COURT 653-1/15/211 (South West side) 10/01/53 Nos.1 AND 2 St Winefride's Convent (part) (Formerly Listed as: COLLEGE COURT No.1) (Formerly Listed as: COLLEGE COURT No.2 Newill House)

GV II

Formerly known as: No.3 COLLEGE COURT. Two houses, now convent. Mid C18, with early C19 additions, possible earlier timber-framed core in one range. Brick with Welsh slate roofs. No.1 forms principal building: mid C18, two-storeyed, with attics. 3 bays, with additional gabled bay to right. Central doorway, an 8-panelled door in Gibbs surround with pediment, flanked by 4-pane sash windows with cambered arched heads. Similar doorcase and arrangement of facade on rear elevation also. 12-pane sash windows with cambered heads on each floor in gabled range to right. Gable end stacks. Running at right angles to this, a cross range apparently mid-late C18, possibly incorporating an earlier structure (some coursed stonework in wall to St Chad's Churchyard). 2-storeyed, 3-window range to courtyard, with 4-panelled doorway to left and 4-pane sash windows. Added to north in early C19, and once in separate occupation, a 2-storeyed, 3-window range with central pedimented bay advanced, with blocked central door flanked by narrow 8-pane sash windows, and 12-pane sashes in the outer bays, all with flat-arched gauged brick heads. Plain overhanging eaves. INTERIOR: No.1 has original staircase with moulded tread ends and turned balusters inside.

Listing NGR: SJ4915312334