The Salopian Star

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SJ 6634-6734; 13/87

MARKET DRAYTON C.P., STAFFORD STREET (north-west side), No. 21 (The Salopian Star)

(Formerly listed as Star Hotel; previously listed as: Old Star Hotel)

07.05.52

GV

II

House, now inn. Dated 1669. Late C19 or early C20 alterations. Timber framed with plastered and painted brick infill, pebbledashed to right-hand return front. Painted dressed sandstone and later brick plinth. C19 planted timbers to front and underbuilt in painted brick to right. Plain tile roofs. Framing: small square panels (five from sole plate to wall plate ) with long straight tension braces. First-floor panels to front with diagonal struts forming lozenge patterns, and slightly jettied attic with hewn bracket to left (bressumer obscured by planted timber),tier of square quatrefoil panels beneath eaves, and gables with tiers of cusped small square panels and cusped curved v-struts. L-plan; 2 + 2 framed bays. Two storeys and attic over basement with 2-storey wing at rear. Integral brick end stack to left, integral brick lateral stack to right and external brick end stack to rear. Two-window front; C19 three-light wooden casements, ground-floor lights with straight-sided arched heads. Two-light segmental-headed basement openings. C17 two-storey timber framed gabled porch off-centre to right with tie-beam dated: "IB (or IE) 1669", cusped v-struts in gable, 2-light first-floor wooden casements to each side, and open ground floor with two posts, curved brackets and pair of C19 two-panelled doors with rectangular overlights. Late C19 or early C20 stone steps (in two flights) with brick wall to front. Carriageway to left-hand with C19 pilastered surround and double-canted sign above. Tie-beam truss in left-hand gable end with two collars and queen struts. Pair of stepped timber-framed gables at rear; each has collar and tie-beam truss with queen struts and v-struts. Early to mid-C19 two-storey brick addition in angle at rear with 16-pane glazing bar sashes and integral brick lateral stack. Interior only partly inspected. Rear wing has pair of ovolo-moulded ceiling beams with ogee stops.

Listing NGR: SJ6761134271