5-9, Severn Street is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 August 1975. Row of houses, former weaving factory.
5-9, Severn Street
- WRENN ID
- outer-minaret-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 August 1975
- Type
- Row of houses, former weaving factory
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SHREWSBURY
SJ41SE SEVERN STREET 653-1/4/608 (North East side) 28/08/75 Nos.5-9 (Consecutive) (Formerly Listed as: SEVERN STREET (North East side) Nos.1-17)
GV II
Row of 5 houses, formerly a weaving factory. Original structure c1806-1809, adapted and refronted c1860. Brick with Welsh slate roof, over iron-framed structure. 3 storeys, 5-window range. Single and paired doorways, the paired 6-panelled doors with overlights beneath single architraves. 12-pane sash windows on each floor, with wide splayed flat-arched heads, some painted. Plain oversailing eaves, axial stacks. Equal height of storeys, irregular window spacing, and traces of additional blocked openings between the windows on the upper floors are the external clues to the building's former use. INTERIOR: the cruciform cast-iron columns, beams and brick arched fire-proof ceilings of the iron-framed structure remain. Built as a weaving factory for Benyon and Bage's Canal Terminus flax mill.
Listing NGR: SJ4974813111
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