The Saracens Head is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 October 1986. A Georgian Inn. 6 related planning applications.
The Saracens Head
- WRENN ID
- ancient-baluster-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- North Shropshire MP: Helen Morgan (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 October 1986
- Type
- Inn
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- The Saracens Head, Shrewsbury Road, Hadnall, SY4 4AG
- OS grid reference
- SJ 522 201
- Coordinates
- 52.77651, -2.709
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Saracen's Head is a house that has been converted into an inn, built in the early 19th century. It features red brick construction with a painted dressed sandstone plinth and a slate roof, designed in an L-shape with three storeys. The building has a plinth and includes integral brick end stacks as well as a brick ridge stack on the rear wing. The façade consists of three bays with 16-pane glazing bar sash windows, which have painted stone cills and lintels. The first floor has 12-pane sashes, while the ground floor features tripartite windows. The central entrance is a six-panelled door, with the lower two panels flush and the top panel glazed, framed by a three-part rectangular overlight and a Greek Doric doorcase that includes unfluted three-quarter columns, a frieze, and a triangular pediment. There is a two-bay return front on the right side and a two-storey wing at the rear. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
The Saracens Head receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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