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Latitude: 52.7049 / 52°42'17"N
Longitude: -2.7657 / 2°45'56"W
OS Eastings: 348357
OS Northings: 312191
OS Grid: SJ483121
Mapcode National: GBR BH.2RSL
Mapcode Global: WH8BT.H86P
Plus Code: 9C4VP63M+XP
Entry Name: Shrewsbury School, Oldham's Hall
Listing Date: 17 November 1995
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1246451
English Heritage Legacy ID: 455077
ID on this website: 101246451
Location: Porthill, Shropshire, SY3
County: Shropshire
Civil Parish: Shrewsbury
Built-Up Area: Shrewsbury
Traditional County: Shropshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Shropshire
Church of England Parish: Shrewsbury St Chad
Church of England Diocese: Lichfield
Tagged with: Architectural structure
SHREWSBURY
SJ41SE ASHTON ROAD 653-1/4/84 (North West side) Shrewsbury School, Oldham's Hall
GV II
School house. 1911. By WA Forsyth. Brick with plain tiled roof. Two-and-a-half storeys, 12-window range asymmetrically planned. Simplified domestic Gothic style. Outer gabled wings advanced and paired off-central gables. Main entrance in return elevation of right-hand wing, subsidiary entrance towards centre. Advanced half-hipped gable to left, with tall wood mullioned and transomed window on each floor. 2-light mullioned and transomed windows in narrow range to left, and 3 tall dormers cut through the eaves line over. Advanced paired gables beyond, with stressed angle pilasters and mullioned and transomed windows of 2, 3 and 4 lights. Date on leaded rainwater head. Long range of 4 mullioned and transomed windows beyond, with 4 hipped dormer windows in the roof. Doorway in angle with advanced gable, moulded stone architrave with lunette over. Canted bay window with stone mullioned windows alongside. End gable with full-height canted bay window with stone mullioned and transomed windows and 3-light casement in gable apex above. Main entrance in side of this gable, with bolection-moulded architrave. Axial and end wall stacks, the end wall stacks linked to the roof by tiled gablets. A carefully articulated composition, exhibiting many of the best characteristics of Edwardian Free Style and Domestic Revival architecture.
Listing NGR: SJ4835712190
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