55, St Michael'S Street is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1995. House. 1 related planning application.

55, St Michael'S Street

WRENN ID: strange-gravel-sage
Grade: II
Local Planning Authority: Shropshire
Country: England
Date first listed: 17 November 1995
Type: House
Source: Historic England listing

Description

SHREWSBURY

SJ41SE ST MICHAEL'S STREET, Ditherington 653-1/4/747 (North West side) No.55

GV II

House, formerly clerk's house to Benyon and Bage's flax mill. c1800. John Simpson, architect and builder. Brick with hipped Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys with basement storey to rear, 3-window range. Central 4-panelled door with overlight in architrave flanked by 12-pane sash windows with flat-arched brick heads. 9-pane sash windows to upper storey. Side wall and axial stacks. The house is built of "great bricks" which link it decisively with the flax mill complex (qv) where they were used in all building work prior to 1805. (Macleod M, Trinder B & Worthington M: Ditherington Flax Mill, Shrewsbury: Ironbridge Institute: 1988-).

Listing NGR: SJ4972513598

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