10 And 11, Pride Hill

SJ4912NW 653-1/11/484 19/09/72

SHREWSBURY PRIDE HILL (North West side) Nos.10 AND 11

GV II

Pair of shops, built as shops and dwellings. Early C18, with extensive remains of late C14 buildings incorporated and forming part of the rear wall. Painted brick with plain tiled roof, the earlier rear wall of sandstone. 3 storeys, 5-window range with inserted shop fronts and 2-pane sashes above with flat-arched brick heads. Continuous sill band to second-floor windows which are 12-pane sashes. Plain overhanging eaves, and 4 dormers in the roof. INTERIOR: extensive cellars of medieval building survive in No.11. Coursed and squared red sandstone with 4 windows in splayed embrasures, with rear wall with leaded lights incorporating stained-glass fleurs-de-lys and roundels. In return wall that now divides the two properties, moulded archway blocked in chamfered recess with shouldering carrying lintel over. (Birmingham University Field Archaeology Unit: The Archaeology of the Charles Darwin Centre: 1988-).

Listing NGR: SJ4918012586