5-9, Severn Street

This is a row of five houses located at 5-9 Severn Street in Shrewsbury, originally constructed as a weaving factory around 1806 to 1809 and later adapted and refronted around 1860. The building is made of brick and features a Welsh slate roof, supported by an iron-framed structure. It stands three storeys tall and has a five-window range. The entrances include single and paired doorways, with the paired doorways featuring six-panelled doors and overlights set beneath single architraves. Each floor has 12-pane sash windows with wide splayed flat-arched heads, some of which are painted. The eaves are plain and oversailing, and there are axial stacks. The equal height of the storeys, irregular spacing of the windows, and traces of additional blocked openings on the upper floors provide hints about the building's former use. Inside, the interior retains cruciform cast-iron columns, beams, and brick arched fire-proof ceilings from its original iron-framed structure. It was built as a weaving factory for Benyon and Bage's Canal Terminus flax mill.