Building Adjacent To The Old School House

SHREWSBURY

SJ4912NW SCHOOL GARDENS 653-1/11/606 (West side) 10/01/53 Building adjacent to The Old School House (Formerly Listed as: SCHOOL GARDENS Premises occupied by West Midlands and British Quarrying Co Ltd)

GV II

Formerly known as: Offices of the General Accident, Fire and Life Assurance Corporation Ltd SCHOOL GARDENS. Offices, originally part of Shrewsbury School. Part probably C16, but extensively rebuilt 1818, probably by E and JH Haycock. Painted brick with plain tiled roof, and remains of timber-framing internally. 2 storeys with attic, 3 bays with wide advanced gable to the left. Neo-Tudor style, with round-arched mullioned windows with hoodmoulds. 2-window range in gable, with small doorway to left, and 2-light mullioned windows on each floor. Main doorway to right of long range in stone embattled porch with 4-centred archway and Salop arms over it. Built into the walls of the porch are a number of antique sculptural fragments. Canted bay window with embattled parapet in the centre of the long range, and mullioned windows of 1 and 2 lights above. 2 coped gabled dormers with 2-light casement windows. INTERIOR: hallway and a rear ground-floor room incorporate C17 wall-panelling, probably not in situ, and not all original. The panelling in the rear room is carved with the names of former pupils of the school between 1843 and 1881. Some timber-framing has also been exposed internally. (Colvin H: A Dictionary of British Architects: London: 1978-).

Listing NGR: SJ4933812778