Whitchurch Urban is a civil parish in Shropshire, England. It contains 110 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, one is listed at Grade I, the highest of the three grades, seven are at Grade II*, the middle grade, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The parish contains the market town of Whitchurch and areas to the north, west and east of the town. Most of the listed buildings are in the town, and a high proportion are houses, shops, and public houses, the earliest of which are timber framed or have a timber framed core. The other listed buildings in the town include churches, items in a churchyard, a country house, almshouses, a bank, offices, schools, hotels, a drinking fountain, and a war memorial. Outside the town are farmhouses, a boundary stone, a milestone, and a road bridge. The Llangollen Canal runs through the western part of the parish, and the listed buildings associated with it are a lock keeper's cottage and a lift bridge.
A house, later a public house, it was remodelled in the 19th century. It is timber framed with cruck construction, partly rebuilt in painted brick with a dentilledeavescornice, and with a slate roof. There are two storeys and two bays. The doorway has Tuscanpilasters and an entablature, and the windows are sashes. Inside is the base-cruck of an open hall house.[2][3]
A house, later used for other purposes, it is timber framed with plastered infill, pebbledashed at the front, partly rebuilt in red brick at the rear, and with a tile roof. The building has two storeys and an attic, it is at right angles to the street, and has four or five bays and a single-storey rear wing. The upper storey and the attic at the gable end are slightly jettied with mouldedbressumers, under which is a square oriel window with a frieze and a cornice. In the ground floor is a 19th-century shop front with cast iron columns, plate glass windows, a doorway on the corner, and a deep fascia, and the left return contains a segmental-headed sash window.[4]
A house, later a shop and cafe, the older part being the gabled cross-wing to the left, with the two-bay hall range on the right dating from about 1600. The building is timber framed with plastered infill on a renderedplinth, with a tile roof. There are two storeys, and the cross-wing also has an attic. The upper storey of the cross-wing is jettied with a mouldedbressumer, and the gable is also jettied. In the ground floor of the hall range is an elaborate 19th-century shop front with a deep glass fascia. The ground floor of the cross-wing contains a central doorway with a four-part fanlight, flanked by small-paned windows, and the windows elsewhere are casements.[5][6]
A house, later divided into two dwellings, it is timber framed with cruck construction, with painted brick infill, rendered on the front and painted to resemble timber framing, and with a slate roof. There are two storeys and three bays, and exposed timber framing on the right gable end. The windows are small-paned casements, and No. 8 has a gabled porch. Inside there is a full cruck truss in the left wall.[7]
A house, later divided into two, it was partly rebuilt and enlarged in the 18th century, and the front was remodelled in about 1900. It is timber framed with brick infill, painted at the rear, and rebuilt, refaced and extended in red brick. At the front, the upper floor has applied timber framing, and the roof is tiled. There is an H-shaped plan, consisting of a central hall range with one storey and an attic, and two bays, flanked by gabled cross-wings with two storeys and basements, and two bays, and there is a rear wing with two storeys and an attic. The house is on a plinth, and the upper storeys and attics are slightly jettied. In the centre are two doorways with lean-to porches, above which are two gables dormers. The windows are casements, those in the ground floor with segmental heads.[8]
The house was extended in the 17th century and remodelled in the 18th century. It is timber framed on a brick plinth, with painted brick infill, rendered at the front, and with slate roofs. There are two storeys and a basement, and an L-shaped plan, consisting of a front range, a rear wing, and a former stable at the rear. On the front to the right is a 19th-century former shop front with Tuscanpilasters, a frieze, a cornice, and a plate glass window. To the left is a door with a rectangular fanlight, further to the left is a passage door, and the windows are cross windows. At the rear is a stair tower, casement windows, and a hippedeavesdormer.[9]
The public house was extended in about 1700, remodelled n the 19th century, and further altered in about 1900. The older parts are timber framed with plastered and painted brick infill, partly rendered, and the refacing, rebuilding and extensions are in red brick. The roof is tiled and hipped at the front, and slated at the rear. There is an L-shaped plan, with a three-storey one-bay range, a two-storey two-bay wing to the left, and a rear wing. The front part has a rendered plinth and a dentilledeavescornice, and contains a doorway with a rectangular fanlight and a hood on consoles. The windows are a mix of sashes and casements, and in the rear wing is a dormer. The left gable end has a jettied upper storey with a mouldedbressumer on fluted brackets.[10]
The house was extended in the 17th century, and extended further and remodelled later. The original part is timber framed with brick infill, partly rendered, and the extensions are in brick, rendered at the front and rear, and the roof is tiled, and hipped at the rear. There are two storeys and an attic, and an H-shaped plan, with a recessed centre, and projecting gabled wings, and a rear two-storey wing. The house has a plinth, chamferedquoins, a copedparapet, and the gables have triangular pediments. The central porch has unflutedTuscan columns, a frieze and a mouldedcornice, and the doorway has a reeded architrave and a rectangular fanlight. The windows in the front are sashes, at the rear are gabled dormers, in the rear wing they are mullioned and transomedcasements, and at the rear is exposed timber framing.[2][11]
The house, later a public house, was remodelled in the 19th century. It is timber framed with plaster infill, the front wall has been rebuilt in rendered brick with a dentilledeavescornice, the rear extension is in red brick, and the roof is slated. There are two storeys, three bays, the right bay recessed, and a rear extension with one storey and an attic. The main doorway has pilasters and a frieze, the doorway to the right has a plain surround, and the windows are casements.[12]
The house was remodelled in the 19th century in Gothick style. It is in renderedtimber framing on a tall plinth, partly rebuilt in painted brick, and has a slate roof. There is one storey, an attic and a semi-basement, and three bays, the outer bays gabled. External steps with railings lead up to the central doorway that has a mouldedarchitrave. To the left is a sash window, to the right is a three-light basement window, and the other windows are Gothick casements.[13]
A pair of timber framed houses, later shops, on a plinth, with plastered and brick infill, partly rendered, and a roof of tile and slate. There are two storeys and three bays. In the ground floor are two 19th-century shop fronts, and to the left is a carriageway. In the upper floor are mullionedcasement windows.[14]
A house, later a public house, it was extended in the 17th century and remodelled in the 19th century. It is timber framed, and has applied timbers with plaster infill and a slate roof, hipped at the front. There are two storeys and a basement and a T-shaped plan, with a one-bay entrance range, and a cross-wing to the left with a front of one bay and four bays along the left return. Steps lead up to the doorway, which has a raking hood on shaped brackets. The upper storey of the cross wing is jettied on shaped and fluted brackets. The windows are casements, and there is exposed timber framing at the rear.[15][16]
A house, later an office, it was extended later in the 17th century, and partly rebuilt in the 19th century. The original part is timber framed, the rebuilding is in red brick with a dentilledeavescornice, and the roof is slated. There are two storeys, two bays, and a single-bay rear wing. In the front is an inserted shop front with plate glass windows and a doorway, and a recessed passage door to the right, under deep fascias, and the windows are sashes.[17]
A house, later a shop and flat, it was remodelled in the 10th century. The building is timber framed on a brick plinth, with painted brick infill, and refaced in brick with applied timber framing at the front. It has a dentilledeavescornice, and a tile roof with a parapetedgable end on the right. There are two storeys and an L-shaped plan, consisting of a two-bay front range, and a rear wing. In the ground floor is a shop front to the right, and a wide passageway to the left. The upper floor contains small-paned casement windows, and in the rear wing there are casement windows in the ground floor and sashes above.[18]
A house with a late 16th-century timber framed core, and later alterations and extensions. It is in red brick with sandstone dressings on a chamfered stone plinth, and has a tile roof with parapetedgables and stone kneelers and copings. There are two storeys and an attic, and a U-shaped plan, with an entrance range of three gabled bays, the middle bay recessed. In the centre is a flat-roofed porch with a dentilledcornice and a coped parapet. Most of the windows are mullioned and transomed, and in the attic are casement windows.[19]
The former farmhouse is in pebbledashedtimber framing with brick infill, a gable end is partly rebuilt in red brick, and the roof is tiled. There are two storeys and an attic, three bays, and a single-storey lean-to at the rear. The windows are casements.[20]
A house, later used for other purposes, it was extended to the rear in about 1700. It is timber framed with painted brick infill, partly rebuilt and extended in brick, and with a tile roof, hipped to the right. There are two storeys and an attic, one bay, and a rear wing. In the ground floor is a 19th-century shop front with panelled piers and a fascia. The upper floor contains a mullioned and transomed window, and there is a gableddormer.[21]
A house, at one time a coaching inn, it was remodelled in the 19th century, and has been used for other purposes. The building is in renderedtimber framing, partly rebuilt and extended in red brick, and has a roof of tile and slate, hipped at the rear. There are two storeys and an attic, and an irregular T-shaped plan, with a four-bay front range, a three-storey rear wing, and a lean-to in the angle. In the ground floor are two shop windows, two doorways with triangular pediments, and to the right is a carriage entry. In the upper floor are mullioned and transomed windows, and there are four dormers, three are gabled and the other has a hipped roof.[22]
A house later a shop, it is timber framed with brick infill, rendered at the font, with a tile roof. There are two storeys and three bays. In the ground floor is a shop front with a cantedplate glass window and a passageway to the right. The upper floor contains two-light casement windows.[23]
A pair of houses, later shops and flats, they were extended later in the 17th century, and remodelled in the 19th century. They are in renderedtimber framing, the front wall is refaced in brick with a dentilledeavescornice, and the roof is slated. There are three storeys, three bays, and a rear wing of one bay with three storeys and two bays with two storeys. In the ground floor are two 19th-century shop fronts, the left one larger with a central doorway, and to the right of them is a passage doorway. The upper floors contain sash windows, and in the rear wing is a gableddormer.[24]
The house, which was remodelled in the 19th century, is in renderedtimber framing on a high plinth, and has a tile roof. There are two storeys and one bay. The doorway, to the right, has pilasters with horizontal fluting, a reeded architrave, a frieze, and a mouldedcornice. The windows are casements, the window in the upper floor with a moulded architrave.[25]
A house, later a house and a shop, the oldest part being the rear wing, with the front range dating from about 1700. The rear wing is timber framed with brick infill, and the front range is in red brick on a plinth, with a band, a dentilledeavescornice, and a tile roof with parapetedgable ends, mouldedcoping, and shaped kneelers. There are two storeys and an attic, and a front of three bays. To the right is an inserted shop window and doorway, and in the centre is a doorway with a moulded architrave. The windows are three-light casements, and the middle bay in the upper floor is blind and contains a decorative wrought iron bracket.[27]
A pair of timber framed shops with a tile roof, two storeys and four bays. In the ground floor are shop fronts, and the upper floor contains sash windows.[28]
Two houses, later converted into flats, the older is the right wing. This was remodelled in the 18th century, it is timber framed and rendered, and has a roof of tile and slate. There is one storey and an attic, and two bays. Some windows are sashes, others are casements, and there are two gableddormers. The other part dates from the mid to late 18th century, it is in rendered brick on a mouldedplinth, and has a copedparapet. The windows are sashes with rusticatedlintels and raised keystones.[29]
The house was remodelled in the 20th century. It is timber framed with painted infill, and rendered on the front and sides with applied timber framing. There are two storeys and an attic, and two bays. The doorway has a lean-to porch, the windows in the ground floor are cross windows, elsewhere they are casements, and there are two gableddormers.[30]
A row of three houses, later shops and flats, that were altered and remodelled in the 19th century. They are in renderedtimber framing with applied timber and plaster infill on the front, and a slate roof. There are three storeys and three bays. In the ground floor are 19th-century shop fronts with reeded and panelled pilaster strips, and the doorway on the right has flutedDoric columns. The windows are a mix of sashes and casements.[31]
A house, later a shop, it is timber framed with red brick infill, partly painted, partly rendered, on a rendered plinth, and with a tile roof. There are two storeys, two bays, and a single-bay rear wing. In the ground floor is a shop front with a plate glass window, and a segmental-headed doorway to the right with a rusticated surround. To the right is a segmental-headed sash window, and to the left is a passage doorway with a blocked segmental-headed fanlight. The upper floor contains sash windows.[32]
A pair of timber framed houses with brick infill and a slate roof. There is one storey and an attic, and two bays. The doors have simple moulded surrounds, the windows are casements, there are two gableddormers on the front, and two raking dormers at the rear.[33]
A barn, later altered and used for other purposes, it is timber framed with brick infill on a high brick plinth, with rebuilding in red brick with a dentilledeavescornice, and a tile roof. There are two bays, and the building contains various doorways and vents.[34]
The house, later a shop, was remodelled in the late 18th century. It is rendered, probably over brick, with a brick rear extension, and has a mouldedstring course, a moulded cornice, a parapet with moulded coping, and a tile roof, hipped to the right. There are three storeys, two bays, and a three-storey rear extension. In the ground floor is a shop front of about 1900, with two plate glass windows flanking a recessed central doorway with panelled pilasters and a deep fascia. The upper floors contain sash windows with slightly segmental heads, and between the top floor windows is a wrought iron sign bracket.[35]
The house was remodelled in the 19th century. It is in renderedtimber framing on a rendered plinth, with a wooden fascia, a moulded gutter, and a tile roof. There are two storeys and an attic, three bays, and a two-storey rear wing. The central porch has cast ironbarley-sugar columns, reeded pilaster strips, and a shallow gabled roof. The doorway has a reeded architrave, a reeded impost band, and a rectangular fanlight. The windows in the main block are mullioned and transomedcasements with concave hoods, in the rear wing they are sashes, and there are three gabled dormers. To the left of the doorway is a cast iron boot scraper.[36]
A row of almshouses, which were altered in the 19th century, in red brick with sandstone dressings on a stepped plinth, with chamferedquoins, a dentilledeavescornice, and a slate roof with parapeted and copedgables and shaped kneelers. There are two storeys and 15 bays, the middle bay projecting under a gable, flanked by quoins and containing a round-headed niche with an architrave, an impost band and a raised keystone, above which is an inscribed tablet. The windows are casements, over the doorways are hood moulds, and there are blank window spaces. Enclosing the yard at the rear is an L-shaped sandstone wall containing a round-arched niche, a round-headed doorway, and two other doorways.[15][37]
A house, later a house and a shop, that was remodelled in the 20th century. It is in red brick with sandstone dressings, chamferedquoins, a wooden fascia, and a tile roof with copedparapetedgable ends. There are two storeys and an attic and five bays. To the right is an inserted shop front. The doorway, which has a rectangular fanlight, and the windows, which are casements, have painted stone lintels.[39]
The church was restored in 1877–79 and in 1885–86, and there have been later alterations. It is built in red sandstone with dressings in grey sandstone, it has a slate roof, and is in Neoclassical style. The church consists of a nave, north and south aisles, a south porch, a chancel with an apsidal east end, and a partly-embraced west tower. The tower has four stages, angle pilaster strips, on the south side is a clock face above a coat of arms, the bell openings have round heads, and at the top is a balustrade that has large corner urn finials with weathervanes, and smaller intermediate urn finials. The south porch is semicircular and has three round-headed arches, an entablature and a balustrade. The windows are round-headed with architraves and raised keystones. Inside the church is a west gallery.[41][42]
The chapel, later used for other purposes, is in red brick rendered at the front, on a mouldedplinth, with stone dressings, chamferedquoins, and a hipped tile roof with gablets. The original front is partly obscured by a 19th-century lean-to extension with a central pair of doors with fanlights, and casement windows. Elsewhere there are segmental-headed windows.[2][43]
Originally the town hall, later used for other purposes, including as a bank. It is in red brick with sandstone dressings on a mouldedplinth, with chamferedquoins, flanking pilaster strips, a copedparapet, and a two-span tile roof. There are two storeys and an attic, and three bays. In the ground floor is an arcade of three round-headed arches with Tuscan columns, moulded architraves, and raised keystones. The arcade was originally open, the left two bays are glazed, with a door in the left bay, and the right bay forms an open porch. In the upper floor are sash windows with keystones.[5][44]
A house, later two shops and flats, stuccoed, probably over brick, with sandstone dressings, chamferedquoins, a parapet with a frieze, a mouldedcornice and a blocking course, and a tile roof with parapeted gable ends. There are three storeys, five bays, and a gabled rear wing. In the ground floor are 19th-century shop fronts with a deep fascia and panelled end-pilasters. The windows are sashes with moulded cills, and raised keystones with moulded tops. At the rear is a doorway with pilaster strips, an entablature and a cornice.[15][48]
The house possibly dates from the late 17th century. It is timber framed on a high brick plinth, with brick infill, painted at the rear and rendered at the front, the end walls are in red brick, and the roof is tiled with parapetedgable ends, mouldedcopings, and shaped kneelers. There are two storeys and an attic, five bays, a single-storey lean-to at the rear on the left, and a two-storey wing on the right. Steps with wrought iron railings lead up to a central doorway with a moulded architrave and a gabled porch on carved console brackets. The windows are cross windows, and there are three dormers with hipped roofs.[49]
The building, at one time a school, was remodelled and enlarged in the 19th century, and is in red brick, stuccoed on the front. It consists of a main block with two storeys and three bays with a tile roof, and is flanked by lower two-story one-bay wings with slate roofs. The main block has a mouldedplinth, banded rustication, a band, panelled end pilaster strips, and a moulded cornice in the middle bay. In the centre is a porch with paired pilaster strips, a frieze, and a triangular pedimentedpediment, and above the door is a rectangular fanlight. The windows are sashes with rusticated voussoirs. In the left wing is a tripartite sash window with a segmental head, and the right bay contains a doorway and a sash window.[52]
A house, later a shop, in red brick with sandstone dressings on a chamfered stone plinth, with chamfered quoins, a rusticatedband, a mouldedmodillioneavescornice, and a tile roof with parapeted and copedgable ends and shaped kneelers. There are three storeys and an L-shaped plan with a front of four bays, and four bays along the left return. In the ground floor is a modern shop front, and the upper floors contain sash windows with moulded cills on shaped brackets and raised keystones. In the left return is a doorway with pilaster strips, a frieze with a central panel, and a moulded cornice.[54]
A house, later a shop, in red brick, painted at the front, with stone dressings, chamferedquoins, and a tile roof with parapetedgable ends, rounded copings and moulded kneelers. There are two storeys and three bays. In the ground floor is a 20th-century shop front, and the upper floor has two sash windows with moulded cills and raised keystones, with a blind window between.[55]
A house, later offices, the building was remodelled in the 19th century. It is rendered, probably over brick, on a mouldedplinth, with a cill band, pilaster strips, a moulded cornice and blocking course, and a tile roof, hipped at the rear, with parapetedgable ends. There are two storeys and an attic, and six bays, a recessed porch with chamfered reveals and a doorway with a rectangular fanlight, and an inserted doorway to the right. The windows are sashes, and three dormers with segmental pediments and slate-hung sides.[56]
The house was extended at the rear in the 19th century. It is in red brick with stone dressings on a renderedplinth, with a pebbledashed right end wall, dentilledbands, a dentilled cornice, a parapet, and a slate roof. There are three storeys, three bays, the middle bay projecting under a pediment, and a two-storey rear wing. Steps lead up to the central doorway that has a mouldedarchitrave, panelled pilaster strips, a frieze with a central raised panel, a cornice, and a triangular pediment on consoles with shells at the base. Most of the windows are sashes with raised keystones, and the top window in the middle bay has a round-arched head.[2][57]
Formerly the coach house and stable block to The Old Rectory, the building is in red brick on a plinth, with a band, and a hipped tile roof. There are two storeys and an attic, and five bays, the middle bay projecting forward. The middle bay is gabled with an oculus in the apex, and contains an elliptical-arched carriageway with a raised keystone. The other bays contain elliptical-arched doorways, and there are segmental-headed casement windows in the upper floor and cross windows in the lower floor. From the entrance, two red brick walls with stone coping form enclosures. The walls contain square piers with pyramidal caps, and those flanking the entrance have wrought iron lamp standards.[58][60]
A red brick house with stone dressings on a stone plinth, with chamferedquoins, a frieze, a dentilledcornice, and a copedparapet. There are three storeys, five bays, the middle bay projecting under a pediment, and flanking two-storey single-bay wings. Steps lead up to the central doorway that has a rectangular fanlight, a mouldedarchitrave, panelled pilaster strips, and a triangular pediment on carved consoles. The windows are sashes, most with rusticatedlintels and raised keystones, those in the middle bay with moulded architraves and cills on brackets, and those in the wings with segmental heads. In the ground floor of the left wing is a carriageway.[2][61]
The ice house is to the southwest of The Tithe Barn. It is in red brick with a circular plan and an entrance to the northwest, and is covered in earth. Inside is a domed roof with an oculus, and a tapered drain at the base.[66]
A house, later a shop and flat, it is in red brick with stone dressings, chamferedquoins, a mouldedcornice, a copedparapet, and a tile roof with parapeted and coped gable ends. There are three storeys, three bays, and a rear wing. In the ground floor is a complete early 19th-century shop front with Greek Doric columns, a triglyphfrieze, a moulded cornice with guttae, and a central doorway with panelled pilasters and carved consoles. The windows are sashes with rusticatedlintels, and raised triple keystones. Between the upper two floors is a name board, and there are dormers in the main block and the rear wing.[5][68]
A house and stable block, later used for other purposes, they are in red brick with tile roofs. The house has a chamferedsandstoneplinth, a dentilledeavescornice, and a two-span roof. There are three storeys, three bays, and a rear wing. In the centre is a porch with Doric columns, an entablature, and a triangular pediment, and the doorway has flutedpilasters and a rectangular fanlight. The windows are sashes, and in the middle bay they are blind. To the left is an elliptical archway linking to the former stable block, which has two storeys and crow-stepped gables.[69]
A house, later a shop, in red brick with sandstone dressings, mouldedcornices, and a slatemansard roof with parapetedcopedgable ends. There are three storeys and an attic, and three bays. In the ground floor is a 20th-century shop front, the upper floors contain sash windows with moulded architraves, and there are two dormers with segmental pediments. Above the middle floor windows is a continuous frieze and cornice with a central segmental pediment.[70]
The boundary stone is set into the wall of No. 16 Mill Street. It is in grey sandstone, and has two parts divided by a vertical line, each part with a rounded top. The left side is inscribed "W" and the right side "D".[71]
The milestone adjacent to the Victoria Hotel is in red sandstone and has a rounded top. It is inscribed "FROM / Chester", and the rest of the inscription is illegible.[72]
The former game larder is timber framed on a brick base, with deep eaves and has a pyramidal slate roof with a square finial. There is one storey and sides of four bays, and it contains small-paned windows.[73]
Originally a Congregational Church, it was largely rebuilt in 1813, and subsequently altered. It is built in red brick with a front of rusticatedsandstone and a slate roof. The entrance front has two storeys, three bays, and a full-width pediment. In the ground floor is a recessed porch with four unflutedDoric columns and an entablature with an inscribed frieze, and the top storey contains three round-headed windows. Along the sides are four bays with sash windows, round-headed in the upper storey and flat-headed below. At the rear of the church are a two-storey church hall and Sunday school, and a vestry room. Inside the church are galleries on three sides and box pews.[74][75]
A house, later used for other purposes, it is in red brick with stone dressings, on a plinth, with a cill band, a dentilledmouldedeavescornice, a copedparapet, and a hippedslate roof. There are three storeys and five bays, the middle bay projecting and containing a full-height arched recess with a frieze, a cornice and a triangular pediment. The central doorway has a moulded architrave with horizontally-fluted sides, radially-fluted spandrels, flanking fluted strips, a radial fanlight, and a triangular pediment. The windows are sashes, and flanking the doorway are cast iron boot scrapers. To the right and recessed is the former coach house, with two storeys and two bays.[5][77]
Originally the service block to Cherwell House, later converted into a separate residence. It is in red brick on a renderedplinth, and has a dentilledeavescornice and a hippedslate roof. There is one storey and two bays. The windows are sashes, and the entrance is at the rear. To the left is a sort wall containing an elliptical-headed doorway.[78]
The stable, later used for other purposes, is in painted sandstone and brick, it has a tile roof with parapetedgables, copings and shaped kneelers, and is in Gothick style. There is one storey and a loft, and a two-storey lean-to on the left. The building contains a casement window and a doorway, both with segmental heads, cruciform vents, a circular pitching hole, and a loft door.[80]
The lock keeper's cottage is adjacent to Grindley Brook Locks on the Llangollen Canal. It is in painted brick with pilaster strips and a hippedslate roof. There are two storeys and a cruciform plan, with the front end bowed. In front is a semicircular loggia with a six-bay colonnade on octagonal wooden posts. In the ground floor of the bowed front are segmental-headed horizontally-sliding sash windows, and elsewhere the windows are casements with segmental heads; the doorway also has a segmental head.[82][83]
Originally a Wesleyan Methodist chapel, later used as a post office, and then as a heritage centre, it is in stuccoedsandstone on a plinth, with the ground floor of the front rusticated, a floor band, a mouldedcornice, and a hippedslate roof. There are two storeys, three bays on the front and five on the sides. On the front there are giant pilasters at the corners and between the bays, and above the middle bay is a pediment. The central doorway has Tuscan pilasters, a three-part elliptical fanlight and an entablature, and is flanked by elliptical-arched windows. Above the doorway is a Venetian window, and the other windows on the front and along the sides are round-headed sashes.[5][84]
The memorial is in the churchyard of St Alkmund's Church, and is to the memory of Ann Loveit. It is a chest tomb in grey sandstone. The tomb has a mouldedplinth, fluted corner piers and a moulded cornice to flat top. There are oval side panels, and raised fluted oval end panels.[85]
A house, later used for other purposes, in red brick with a painted wooden fascia and a slate roof. There are three storeys and two bays. In the ground floor is a modern shop front, the middle floor contains a tripartite sash window with panelled pilasters, a frieze, and a mouldedcornice, and there are two sash windows in the top floor.[86]
A red brick house on a renderedplinth, with a dentilledeavescornice and a tile roof, on a corner site. There are three storeys and three bays. The central doorway has reeded half-colonnettes, a rectangular fanlight, a frieze, and a cornice. The windows are sashes, in the right return is a first-floor French window with an ornamental cast iron balcony, and to the right is a doorway with a recessed blind semicircular tympanum.[87]
A house, part of a former house, it incorporates a timber framed core with cruck construction from the 14th or 15th century. It is in red brick with a renderedplinth, a dentilledeavescornice, and a slate roof. There are two storeys and two bays. In the centre is a porch with a gabled hood, and the windows are sashes. The wall between this house and 8 Dodington is a full cruck truss.[88]
The house is rendered on a plinth with a moulded top, the ground floor has banded rustication, there are end pilaster strips, a cill band, and the roof is slated. The house has three storeys and three bays. In the centre is a porch with flutedIonic columns, unfluted pilasters, and an entablature. The doorway has panelled reveals and soffit, a rectangular fanlight, and side lights. The windows are sashes, those in the lower two floors with moulded architraves.[89]
A house and shop on a corner site in red brick with a mouldedcornice and a rendered blocking course. There are three storeys, two bays on High Street, two bays on Saint Mary's Street, and a recessed quadrant bay on the corner with curved windows. On High Street is a 19th-century shop front with unflutedIonicpilasters, a frieze and a cornice. The windows are sashes, and on the Saint Mary's Street front is an oriel window.[92]
A pair of houses, later shops, with a timber framed, probably 17th-century, core, with brick infill, partly refaced in red brick, and with a slate roof. There are three storeys, four bays, and a short rear wing. In the ground floor are shop fronts with central doorways, and to the left is a carriage entry. The upper floors contain sash windows with stone cills and lintels, and in the third bay the windows are blind.[94]
A house in painted brick with a slate roof, two storeys and a slightly projecting attic, and two bays. The central doorway has pilasters with Corinthian-type capitals, a fanlight, and an entablature with a dentilledcornice. The windows are sashes with slightly-segmental heads, and there are two projecting half-dormers with shaped bases, flanking recessed side lights, a dentilled cornice and a flat tops.[95]
A terrace of four red brick houses with a slate roof. There are three storeys, each house has two bays, and at the rear are three single-storey gabled service wings with applied timbers. Each doorway has pilaster strips, a frieze, and a flat hood on shaped brackets. On the front the windows are sashes with painted cills and lintels, and at the rear are segmental-headed casement windows and horizontally-sliding sash windows.[97]
A red brick house with a slate roof, three storeys, and three bays, the central bay projecting. In the centre is a Tuscan porch, and a doorway with a rectangular fanlight. The windows in the lower two floors are sashes, and in the top floor they have been replaced by casements.[99]
A terrace of ten brick houses with a dentilledeavescornice and a slate roof. There are two storeys and each house has one bay. At the rear of Nos. 1–7 are lean-to extensions, and at the rear of Nos. 8–10 are gabled wings. The windows are casements with segmental heads.[100]
The milestone outside the house is partly buried in the pavement. It is in grey sandstone with a rounded top. There is a cast iron plate inscribed "20", and the rest of the inscription is obscured.[101]
A painted brick house with a band, a dentilledeavescornice, and a tile roof. There are three storeys, three bays, and a gabled two-storey rear wing. The central doorway has reeded quarter columns with horizontally-reeded capitals, in panelled pilasters with moulded capitals, and an entablature with a moulded dentilled cornice. The windows are sashes, those in the ground floor tripartite and with slightly segmental heads.[103]
A house, later a hotel, it is in red brick with sandstone dressings, and a two-span slate roof with parapetedcopedgable ends and shaped kneelers. There are two storeys and an attic, and a front of three bays. The outer bays are bowed, and each has a plinth, a raised eaves band, a dentilledmouldedcornice and a blocking course, and they contain sash windows. The narrower middle bay has a raised parapet, a frieze and a triangular pediment. It contains a cast iron porch with a moulded cornice, and a doorway, approached by steps, with an architrave, a segmental fanlight, a frieze, and a cornice. Recessed on the right is a two-storey service block, and there is a brick screen wall with a sandstone impost band and moulded coping, containing a doorway with a semicircular tympanum.[104]
The stable and coach house are in red brick with sandstone dressings and a slate roof, hipped to the left. There are two storeys and five bays, with the stable on the left. The third and fourth bays project forward under a triangular pedimentedgable with an oculus in the tympanum. Below are two semicircular windows and a wide doorway, and on the ridge is a cupola with a pyramidal lead cap and a weathervane. To the left is a segmental-headed doorway, and the windows are cross-windows with rusticatedlintels and raised keystones.[105]
A house later a hotel, it is in red brick, painted at the front, with an eaves band, a mouldedcornice, a parapet, and a slate roof. There are three storeys and an L-shaped plan, with a front of four bays, a rear wing, a lean-to in the angle, and an assembly room or ballroom. In the third bay is a doorway with unflutedIonic columns, an entablature, a dentilled cornice, a panelled soffit, and a rectangular fanlight. The first bay contains a carriageway with a depressed arch, and in the other ground floor bays are shop fronts. The upper floors contain sash windows with slightly segmental heads.[106]
A row of four almshouses in Tudor Revival style, with a front of grey sandstone on a chamferedplinth, red brick at the rear, and tile roofs. There is one storey, eight bays, and three parapetedgables. The doorways and sash windows all have chamfered reveals, and above the doors are hood moulds. In the outer gables are narrow rectangular openings, and the middle gable contains an inscribed moulded lozenge-shaped panel.[58][107]
The church, designed by Edward Haycock in Greek Revival style, is now redundant. It is built in red brick with a front of Grinshillsandstone, and has a slate roof. The church consists of a nave with transepts at the west end, a short chancel, and an embraced west tower. The west front has five bays. In the centre are two Ionic columns outside which are Tuscanpilasters supporting an entablature and a cornice. Above this is a pediment containing a coat of arms, and rising from it is the tower that has a square lower stage with a clock face on the front and oculi on the sides. Over this is an octagonal lantern with Tuscan antae, an entablature, and a pyramidal cap. In the outer bays are tall small-paned cast iron windows.[108][109]
The walls in front of the forecourt of the church and the gate piers are in grey sandstone. The walls are low and canted to the centre. The piers are square, they are panelled and have panelled semicircular caps.[110]
Originally a savings bank, later divided into flats, it is in painted sandstone on a mouldedplinth, with red brick at the sides and rear, a string course, and a hipped tile roof. It is in Neoclassical style, and has two storeys, and five bays divided and flanked by Tuscanpilasters. Between the storeys is an entablature with a frieze, a moulded cornice, and a blocking course. The middle bay is surmounted by a triangular pediment, and contains a recessed porch with Ionic columns and a pair of doors with a rectangular fanlight. The windows are sashes.[5][112]
The grammar school, later used for other purposes, is in red brick with sandstone dressings, windows containing lattice glazing, and slate roofs, and is in Jacobean style. It consists of four blocks, the main block with the hall, the science block on the right, probably the master's house on the left, and probably a coach house to the left of that. The main block has diapering, an entrance range with two storeys, three bays, a parapet, and an oriel window. To the right the hall range has a two-storey cantedbay window with a balustrade, and a shaped gable. The science block is also diapered, and has two storeys, four bays, mullioned and transomed windows, and between the blocks is a Tudor arched gateway with a shaped gable and an obeliskfinial. The former house has three storeys and three bays, the middle bay recessed, mullioned and transomed windows, shaped gables on the outer bays, and obelisk finials. The former coach house has two storeys, one bay, and casement windows.[15][113]
A house, later a public house, in Tudor Revival style, it is in red brick with stone dressings, on a stone plinth, with a mouldedeavescornice, and a slate roof with parapetedgable ends, moulded copings, and shaped kneelers. There are two storeys and a T-shaped plan, with a slightly projecting gabled cross-wing to the left, and two bays to the right. The central doorway has chamfered reveals and a hood mould, and flanking it are cantedbay windows. Above the doorway is a canted oriel window, and the outer bays contain casement windows with panels below and hood moulds above.[114]
A pair of shops in red brick with a cast iron front and a red brick parapet with sandstonecoping. There are three storeys, nine bays, and rear ranges, on the left with two storeys and eight bays, on the right with three storeys, and at the end with two storeys. In the ground floor are two shop fronts, a central carriage entry flanked by cast iron columns, and a deep fascia. The middle floor contains a round-arched arcade, both upper floors have columns and pierced spandrels, and between them is a pierced frieze.[121][122]
The war memorial stands in an enclosure, and is in Hollington stone. It consists of an obelisk with a wreath wrapped around its top, on a multi-stepped plinth. On the memorial are plaques with inscriptions and the names of those lost in the two World Wars. Behind the memorial is a sundial with an inscription on the base.[123]
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