Monument Type(s):

• PUBLIC HOUSE (late 15th century, 15th century to Late 19th century - 1419 AD to 1899 AD) + Sci.Date

Summary

An early 15th century public house, which is protected by Grade II Listing.

Related records

Associated Finds: None recorded

Associated Events: None recorded

Description

Public house. Late C15 with late C19 alterations. Timber frame painted over with plain tiled roof. 3 storeys, single-window range. Late C19 public house front to ground floor with 6-panelled door to left and 3-light window with carved spandrels to mullions and panelling below. Moulded brackets carry quatrefoil and dentilled frieze over bressumer to jettied upper floor which has continuous band of small-paned casement windows. Jettied second storey with horizontally sliding sash window. Rear wing is 2 storeys with gabled dormer. Plaster over timber-frame with brick infill to ground floor. Inserted doors to ground floor each side of central inserted window. Casement windows of 2 and 3 lights above. Square panelled framing also visible in gable wall adjoining timber-framed building to rear (building to rear of Nag's Head public house, qv). (Smith J T: Shrewsbury: Topography and Domestic Architecture to the mid C17: 1953) <2>

Front and side elevations recorded in March 1996 with later annotations in 1998. <6><7>

Restored in 1996. Frontage, certainly commercial, range to hall 10649 at the rear; probably contemporary - early 15th century? Cross references are to rear hall (10649); the town wall line bounding the rear of the property (62446); investigations upon it (60148,9) and the side property boundaries/ terrace walls, 60212, 60150. <8>

The Nag's Head itself appears to be part of the same building programme as the hall behind it (PRN 10649); the same felling-date was established for a corner post linking the two buildings. The street facing range has a deep front jetty and cusped windbraces in a side-purlin roof. Recent repair work revealed that the upper storey had panels with up-and-down cusped bracing. Photograph and elevations, photograph of crown-post roof.->

->The street-facing room of the third storey contains an C18 corner cupboard with scalloped shelves. A door was added later and is decorated with a depiction of what appears to be the god Neptune. Photograph. <9>

The Nag’s Head Hall, Wyle Cop, is situated at the rear of the public house and between the inner and outer town wall, is incomplete. The hall was demolished in the 1950s, leaving exposed the spere truss, the screens passage and the service end. The spere truss is of tripartite form but without continuous aisle-posts. It is richly decorated with cusped panels, brattishing and moulding, and it retains a crown-post roof truss in which there is six-way bracing. All the braces are cusped, two of the laterals down-swing to the tie in normal Salopian fashion, but a further pair up-swing to the collar. The crown-post is typical of the Shrewsbury style in being cruciform in plan, the limbs extending to straddle the tiebeam, thus effecting a strong joint and giving a decorative impression. The three service doorways have ogee-heads, and independent access to the gallery above the passage was via an external staircase, through an arched doorway at first-floor level and an inner doorway which has a decorative head. It is likely that the solar was above the service rooms; there would have been insufficient space beyond the hall. The Nag's Head itself produced a 1419 felling date and is linked to the remains of the hall house which dated to 1422. In 1392 a fire is recorded as having destroyed much of Wyle Cop. <10>

Wallpainting in attic of C18 date. Religious figure. In chamber fronting on to Wyle Cop on inside of door of cupboard with C18 detailing. Possibly one of the prophets. Quite well painted. Colour illustration. <11>

Brief description and elevation of jetty. <12>

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