Shrewsbury School, Churchill'S Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1995. A Victorian School. 6 related planning applications.

Shrewsbury School, Churchill'S Hall

WRENN ID
dusted-ledge-juniper
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Shropshire
Country
England
Date first listed
17 November 1995
Type
School
Period
Victorian
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Churchill's Hall at Shrewsbury School is a school house built around 1882, designed by William White of Wimpole Street. The building is constructed of brick and features plain tiled roofs in a Domestic Gothic style with an asymmetrical layout. It consists of two parallel two-storey ranges, with a three-storey, two-window range block located to the right of the center. There are parallel rear ranges and wings.

The entrance is situated in the advanced rear range of the two-storey block, featuring a lean-to porch supported by chamfered timber shafts. The façade includes two full-height canted bay windows with wood mullioned and transomed lights, tile-hung aprons, and hipped roofs. There is a ground-floor canted bay window, with a three-light mullioned and transomed window above it, set beneath a gable. To the right, there is a slightly advanced gable that contains three-light mullioned and transomed windows on each floor, with a tile-hung gable apex.

The front wall has axial and gable end stacks with star-shaped shafts. The taller block to the right features a two-window range with three-light mullioned and transomed windows that have shallow segmental heads, along with half-hipped dormers above the attic windows. Beyond this is a two-storey, three-window range with mullioned and transomed lower windows that have segmentally-arched brick heads, and dormer windows above. The end wall stacks also have star-shaped shafts.

This building is an early example of the Domestic Revival style, designed by one of the principal architects of the Victorian period, and is significant as part of a notable group of buildings commissioned by Shrewsbury School in the late 19th century.

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