Description

SHREWSBURY

SJ4912NW SCHOOL GARDENS
653-1/11/606 (West side)
10/01/53 Building adjacent to The Old School
House
(Formerly Listed as:
SCHOOL GARDENS
Premises occupied by West Midlands
and British Quarrying Co Ltd)

GV II

Formerly known as: Offices of the General Accident, Fire and
Life Assurance Corporation Ltd SCHOOL GARDENS.
Offices, originally part of Shrewsbury School. Part probably
C16, but extensively rebuilt 1818, probably by E and JH
Haycock. Painted brick with plain tiled roof, and remains of
timber-framing internally.
2 storeys with attic, 3 bays with wide advanced gable to the
left. Neo-Tudor style, with round-arched mullioned windows
with hoodmoulds. 2-window range in gable, with small doorway
to left, and 2-light mullioned windows on each floor. Main
doorway to right of long range in stone embattled porch with
4-centred archway and Salop arms over it. Built into the walls
of the porch are a number of antique sculptural fragments.
Canted bay window with embattled parapet in the centre of the
long range, and mullioned windows of 1 and 2 lights above. 2
coped gabled dormers with 2-light casement windows.
INTERIOR: hallway and a rear ground-floor room incorporate C17
wall-panelling, probably not in situ, and not all original.
The panelling in the rear room is carved with the names of
former pupils of the school between 1843 and 1881. Some
timber-framing has also been exposed internally.
(Colvin H: A Dictionary of British Architects: London: 1978-).

Listing NGR: SJ4933812778

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26681760

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Recommended Books

• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
• 
  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
• 
  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
• 
  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)