The Guildhall is a Grade II* listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1953. House, guildhall. 3 related planning applications.
The Guildhall
- WRENN ID
- muffled-passage-thrush
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1953
- Type
- House, guildhall
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SJ4912SW 653-1/15/279 10/01/53
SHREWSBURY DOGPOLE (East side) The Guildhall (Formerly Listed as: DOGPOLE (East side) The Guildhall (Newport House))
GV II*
House, later guildhall, now council offices. c1700. Brick with hipped Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys, 5-window range. Central door up steps in early C19 porch with paired fluted Doric columns and triglyph frieze. Original inner doorcase has enriched moulded architrave, with scrolls and swags each side, a crown and boughs over it. Windows are flush-framed 12-pane sashes with flat-arched finely gauged brick heads, and continuous sill band. Deep modillion eaves band to overhanging roof which has 3 dormers with alternately triangular and segmental pediments. Stressed angle quoins. Garden front also a 5-window range with 3 pedimented dormers in the roof. Lower windows are full-height sashes, one extended to form French doors. 2 axial stacks, both later builds or rebuilds. INTERIOR: wall-panelling in many of the rooms and the staircase with twisted balusters and moulded rail may date from a later refurbishment of the house. Fireplace in entrance hall has tiles in the style of William de Morgan. The house was built by Richard Earl of Bradford on a site previously occupied by what is now Castle Gates House, Castle Gates (qv).
Listing NGR: SJ4936312473
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