Description

SJ4912SW
653-1/15/279
10/01/53

SHREWSBURY
DOGPOLE
(East side)
The Guildhall
(Formerly Listed as:
DOGPOLE
(East side)
The Guildhall (Newport House))

GV
II*

House, later guildhall, now council offices. c1700. Brick with
hipped Welsh slate roof.
2 storeys, 5-window range. Central door up steps in early C19
porch with paired fluted Doric columns and triglyph frieze.
Original inner doorcase has enriched moulded architrave, with
scrolls and swags each side, a crown and boughs over it.
Windows are flush-framed 12-pane sashes with flat-arched
finely gauged brick heads, and continuous sill band. Deep
modillion eaves band to overhanging roof which has 3 dormers
with alternately triangular and segmental pediments. Stressed
angle quoins.
Garden front also a 5-window range with 3 pedimented dormers
in the roof. Lower windows are full-height sashes, one
extended to form French doors. 2 axial stacks, both later
builds or rebuilds.
INTERIOR: wall-panelling in many of the rooms and the
staircase with twisted balusters and moulded rail may date
from a later refurbishment of the house. Fireplace in entrance
hall has tiles in the style of William de Morgan.
The house was built by Richard Earl of Bradford on a site
previously occupied by what is now Castle Gates House, Castle
Gates (qv).

Listing NGR: SJ4936312473

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Newport House at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17550652

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
• 
  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)