Description

SHREWSBURY

SJ4812SE CANONBURY 653-1/14/141 (North side) The Old House

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House. Mid C19. Red brick with yellow brick dressings and Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys with attic and basement. 2-window range with side entrance. Main elevation faces the river: wide gable to the right with slightly projecting 3-light wood mullioned and transomed window with pedimented wood head on principal floor, and mullioned and transomed oriel window alongside. 2-light casement windows on upper floor, with stilted arched yellow brick hoodmoulds. Ornate fretted barge-boards to gables, the eaves projecting on wood brackets. Elevation to Canonbury has wide gable to left with 2-storeyed lean-to porch on inner face. Round-arched doorway with 6-panelled door. Stilted arched windows above. In the gable over the porch, 3-light window with Gothick traceried lights and shafts as mullions. Wide 2-light mullioned and transomed stair window in return gable elevation, and 2-light mullioned and transomed windows to its right on each floor. End wall stacks.

Listing NGR: SJ4871612001

External Links

• Wikidata Q26539063

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Recommended Books

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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2