Description

SJ 6634-6734
13/67
7.5.52

MARKET DRAYTON C.P.
SHROPSHIRE STREET
(south-east side)
No. 27 (formerly listed as The Abbot's House)

GV
II

House, now restaurant. Early to mid-C17. Timber framed with plaster
and painted brick infill on painted dressed sandstone plinth, partly rebuilt
in painted brick. Plain tile roof. Framing: front wall and gable
with closely-spaced uprights (in three tiers from sole plate wall plate).
Side walls of small square panels (3 from sole plate to wall plate) with
short straight corner braces. 3 framed bays at right angles to road.
One storey and attic. Gable end to front with shaped barge boards.
Left-and right-hand return fronts each have a gabled eaves dormer with
2-light diamond-leaded wooden casement. Brick stack to right of ridge.
Canted attic oriel window of 1-:2-:1- diamond-leaded lights with hipped top
and supported on 2 wooden brackets. Ground-floor small-paned (4 x 3)
window with weathering, flanking applied half-balusters, and narrow side
lights. Half-glazed door in left-hand return front with 2 ogee-headed
panels and gabled porch. Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ6749834097

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26307716

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Recommended Books

• 
  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)