Murivance House and Allatt House is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1953. Office, former school. 1 related planning application.
Murivance House and Allatt House
- WRENN ID
- seventh-pillar-umber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- Shrewsbury MP: Julia Buckley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1953
- Type
- Office, former school
- Address
- Murivance House and Allatt House, Shrewsbury, SY1 1JW
- OS grid reference
- SJ 489 123
- Coordinates
- 52.70602, -2.7575
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Murivance House and Allatt House, originally a school and later a health centre, were built around 1800 by John Hiram Haycock for John Allatt. The building is constructed of ashlar facing brick, with a hipped Welsh slate roof. It comprises a central block flanked by lower pavilions, creating a symmetrical composition.
The central block is two storeys high with four bays, featuring doorways with six-panelled doors and overlights within architraves, each topped by a flat entablature. The windows are 12-pane sashes, with the central window being blind, though glazed. A plinth, sill band, and eaves parapet run along the building, and the cornice incorporates a raised panel inscribed "Founded by John Allatt gent MDCCC.”
Flanking the central block, the pavilions are linked by a triple-arched arcade, now glazed and containing doors and windows. These pavilions are two bays wide, with full-height recesses housing 12-pane sash windows. Both pavilions feature a plinth and parapet. A sundial with incised numerals is set into the return wall of the right-hand pavilion.
Local climate
Murivance House and Allatt 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2013
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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