1-4 Church Terrace is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 January 1952. Almshouse. 1 related planning application.
1-4 Church Terrace
- WRENN ID
- stony-landing-jackdaw
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- North Shropshire MP: Helen Morgan (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 January 1952
- Type
- Almshouse
- Address
- 1-4 Church Terrace, St. Martin'S, SY11 3AN
- OS grid reference
- SJ 321 363
- Coordinates
- 52.92009, -3.00986
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
1-4 Church Terrace are almshouses dated 1698, altered in 1810 with later repairs and additions. They are constructed of red brick in a mixed bond, featuring stone angle quoins and a moulded eaves cornice that rises around a central projecting pediment. The roof is hipped and covered with graded slate.
Originally seven dwellings, the building is now divided into four cottages and is single-storey. The symmetrical arrangement of windows includes 20th-century casements that replaced 19th-century latticed windows, with 18th-century or early 19th-century gauged heads flanking paired entrances on both the left and right. There is a similar arrangement of windows on either side of the entrance to the pediment, with doorways and adjoining windows at angles to the left and right. All entrances feature 20th-century nail-studded doors and 19th-century rectangular overlights. The ridge stacks were rebuilt in 19th-century red brick on either side of the pediment, along with integral end stacks.
The pediment bears a datestone inscribed with 'This School for the Education / of twelve poor Female Children / in the Doctrines of the Established Church / was instituted A.D. 1810 / By / Charlotte Vicountess Dungannon / Sit Deo Gloria.' Another datestone on the right end wall reads 'These Alms Houses / for the Maintenance of Six Poor Women / were founded A.D. 1698 / by the Rt. Hon.ble Sir JOHN TREVOR Kt. / of BRYNKINALT / Speaker of the House of Commons and / Master of the Rolls during the Reigns / of King William III.rd and Queen Anne. / Deus nobis hac otia fecit.'
Local climate
1-4 Church Terrace receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% 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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