Shrewsbury School, School House is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1995. School house. 8 related planning applications.
Shrewsbury School, School House
- WRENN ID
- muted-keystone-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- Shrewsbury MP: Julia Buckley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 November 1995
- Type
- School house
- Address
- Shrewsbury School, School House, Ashton Road, SY3 7AS
- OS grid reference
- SJ 486 120
- Coordinates
- 52.7034, -2.7616
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Shrewsbury School, School House is a school building constructed around 1882, designed by Sir Arthur Blomfield. It is made of brick with a hipped Welsh slate roof and features terracotta dressings. The building is in the Queen Anne style and has a main range of three storeys and an attic, with a total of ten windows arranged in a 3-4-3 pattern, where the outer sections are slightly advanced.
The central entrance is located within a projecting porch that has fluted pilasters and wood balustrading above. There are paired doors with a traceried fanlight above them, and a tripartite window over the door, which is topped with an entablature and scrolled pediments. The central window has ornamental glazing. The building features 20-pane sash windows with entablatures and continuous sill bands, similar windows are found on the upper storey. The outer sections have tripartite windows on each floor, also with entablatures and scrolled pediments over the first floor. There are ornamental glazed French doors to the right.
A coved cornice is present on the projecting roof, which also has fluted axial stacks. Hipped-roofed dormer windows are set within the roof. At the rear, there is a four-storey range linked to the main block by a wing, which employs similar architectural details. This building is part of a group of structures commissioned by Shrewsbury School and is significant as an early example of the Neo-Georgian style.
Local climate
Shrewsbury School, School House receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 8 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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