Loggerheads Public House

SHREWSBURY

SJ4912NW CHURCH STREET 653-1/11/182 (South East side) 10/01/53 No.1 Loggerheads Public House (Formerly Listed as: CHURCH STREET (South side) No.1 Shrewsbury Arms Inn)

GV II

House, now public house. Early C18 with later alterations. Painted brick with plain tiled roof. 3 storeys, 3-window range. Doorway to right of centre with overlight in moulded architrave with small canopy over, possibly marking the original gable end of the building (stone quoins in wall above it). Public house windows flank the doorway, with architraves with high entablature and hood. Small inserted window to left. Upper windows are irregularly spaced flush-framed 9-pane sashes (6 panes to second storey). Dentilled string course forms sill band of second storey. Stack on right-hand gable. Small single-storey extension of the later C19 to right, with small-paned public house window and door beneath a single projecting fascia or hood. Forms a single build with No.17 St Mary's Street (qv). INTERIOR: entry to left leads to small lobby with door to bar on the right. Ground floor has room plan intact and consists of Gentleman's Bar, Bar, Lounge and Snug. The Gentleman's Bar has a timber partition to the corridor with borrowed glazing along the top and is lined on one wall with reused C16 oak panelling. Fixed bench seating. Victorian inglenook-style fireplace across the corner with bracketed shelf above. Servery hatches in passage to bars. Small snug to rear has padded bench seating to perimeter, and door opening has small ogee architraves. Lounge bar has servery hatch to central bar and separate door through lobby into Church Street. Central bar has main bar area across the room parallel to Church Street. 2 bench settles, plain dado, ogee picture rail and architraves to door.

Listing NGR: SJ4929712511