Library, Former Blower's Repository, Shrewsbury
Description: Library, Former Blower's Repository
Grade: II
Date Listed: 17 November 1995
English Heritage Building ID: 455422
OS Grid Reference: SJ4936612842
OS Grid Coordinates: 349366, 312842
Latitude/Longitude: 52.7109, -2.7509
Location: 3 A5191, Shrewsbury, Shropshire SY1 2AT
Locality: Shrewsbury
Local Authority: Shropshire
County: Shropshire
Country: England
Postcode: SY1 2AT
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Listing Text
SHREWSBURY
SJ4912NW CASTLE GATES
653-1/11/157 (West side)
Library, former Blower's Repository
GV II
Store and offices, now in use as library offices. Dated 1902.
Brick with mock timber facade, ashlar porch and plain tiled
roof. 2 storeys, 2-window range with advanced gable to the
right. Full-height porch to left, with round-arched entrance,
and mullioned and transomed windows above, with leaded lights.
Inscribed "Blowers Repository" over the archway. Original shop
front in right hand gable, with high fascia with moulded
consoles. Upper storey has mock timbering with decorative
panels forming baluster-like arcading, and with moulded
bressumer to jettied second storey. Herringbone struts and
cusped braces in gable apex. Shallow oriel window over, with
leaded lights, and paired 3-light mullioned and transomed
windows in the gable, with enriched tie beam over, bearing the
date.
Listing NGR: SJ4936612842
Source: English Heritage
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