Numbers 1-4, The Armoury

Numbers 1-4, The Armoury, are a house and three cottages dating from approximately 1806, built as officer’s houses and workshops for the Shrewsbury Armoury. The building is constructed of brick with Welsh slate roofs. The main house is two storeys high and has a three-window front with a central entrance. The front door is a six-panelled door within a moulded architrave, featuring a triglyph frieze. It is flanked by eight-pane sash windows with wide, splayed heads; the central upper window is blind and is flanked by four-pane sashes. A continuous sill band runs along the first floor. The building has a hipped roof and plain stuccoed eaves. The cottages, originally workshops or stables, have been extensively altered. They are lower in height and each has two storeys and a single-window range, with doorways inserted into wide original openings that have segmentally-arched heads. The armoury was designed by James Wyatt.