The Lawn is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. House. 2 related planning applications.

The Lawn

WRENN ID
endless-oriel-kestrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Shropshire
Constituency
North Shropshire MP: Helen Morgan (LD)
Country
England
Type
House
Address
The Lawn, Wem Rural, SY4 5NP
OS grid reference
SJ 479 332
Coordinates
52.8943, -2.77444
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Lawn is a house, likely built in the late 18th century, with 19th-century additions and alterations. It is constructed of red brick with purple brick headers and features a slate roof with coped verges on carved kneelers topped with pointed stone finials. The building has three storeys and displays a painted dentilled eaves cornice along with a fluted band below. The front has three windows, each with 16-paned glazing bar sashes, wedge lintels, raised keystones, and bracketed cills. The central entrance is highlighted by a stone Tuscan porch that features a carving of a ship's anchor on the shaped pediment above a plain pilastered stone doorcase, which contains a six-panel door and a rectangular overlight. There are internal end stacks, and an inscription reading "SW (inverted)/ 1898" is found on the bricks above the centre first-floor window. At the rear, a full-height gable accommodates a back staircase. Inside, there is an oak winder staircase leading to the rear gable, which has been removed between the ground and first floors, and panelled shutters are present on the front ground-floor windows.

Local climate

The Lawn receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% 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 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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