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Claremont Bank, SHREWSBURY, SY1 1RJ

This OS cut mark can be found on the wall of Claremont Buildings on Claremont Bank. It marks a point 62.449m above mean sea level.

An urbane group of four blocks, each containing two three-bay houses having a shared entrance. Early C19th. Grade II listed.

A rather unusual, mid 18th century house. It consists of 2 storeys plus attic, but may well have a cellar too, and is arranged between this tall section, the block with the steps and front door, plus the annexe further left again. Grade II listed https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101246914-st-chads-cottage-shrewsbury & https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1246914 in 1972.

A terrace of 1792-94, by Carline & Tilley, of some severity. If finished, it would have had a four-bay projection at the far end to complete the symmetry. The unfortunate porches are probably later. Grade II listed.

Nos 3 & 4 lie near the middle of a terrace of very striking, mid 19th century, Georgian town houses (they were built around 1830) which have now mostly been converted to offices, The righthand end, including these two and the railings, was listed Grade II* https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101271084-1-8-claremont-bank-and-attached-railings-shrewsbury & https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1271084 in 1953, and the far end was added to the listing in the late 1960s.

A fine early C18th house (e.g. see the gabled return), aggrandised later in the C18th by the addition of a full-height bow and pedimented doorcase. Grade II listed. Originall St Chad's vicarage, it is now home to a GP surgery.

Originally the Priory School for Boys, now Grade II Listed. See also Image and Image

This is a narrow street of cottagey houses. The alignment on St Mary's Church might not be accidental. The houses in the photo are all listed buildings, and are 17C timber-framed buildings encased in brick in the 18C. On the left the bow windows are a 20C alteration. The arched opening to the passage to the rear has a high relieving arch over it. The square opening under the right-hand window might be a cellar vent. The next two shows signs of alterations, with relieving arches showing the position of former windows or doors. Then the houses under the mansard roof, a later alteration, may originally have been a single house (two of the present houses are at the rear, accessed via the wide archway). There are cellar windows at pavement level. This building can be seen more clearly in http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/images/45/61/L456141.jpg

Welsh Bridge Campus. The Grade II listed https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1254737 Shrewsbury Sixth Form College was originally the Priory School for Boys.

A good example of the William and Mary style, it was built as a secondary school by Frank Shayler & J.A. Swan, 1910-11. Grade II listed. Now Shrewsbury Sixth Form College.