Davenport House is a Grade I listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 November 1951. A Georgian Mansion. 4 related planning applications.
Davenport House
- WRENN ID
- proud-barrel-holly
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 November 1951
- Type
- Mansion
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- Davenport House, Worfield, WV15 5LE
- OS grid reference
- SO 753 954
- Coordinates
- 52.55622, -2.3649
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Davenport House is a Grade I listed Georgian mansion built in 1726, designed by the architect Smith of Warwick for Henry Davenport. It is set within a landscaped park and features a rectangular central block flanked by four detached office wings connected by curved screen walls. The house is constructed of red brick with a stone plinth, rusticated quoins, a modillioned cornice, and four ornamental parapet urns. It has two storeys plus an attic and includes nine sash windows with moulded stone architrave surrounds; the ground floor windows have flat entablatures. The central porch is notable for its fluted Ionic columns in antis and a cornice balustraded parapet, accessed by a straight flight of steps with balustrade sides. The garden elevation mirrors the front but features a pedimented doorway instead of a porch. The office wings are two storeys tall with five sash windows each, topped by steep hipped slate roofs and cupolas, and are enclosed by brick screen walls with rusticated pilasters. The overall design is impressively symmetrical.
Local climate
Davenport House receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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 sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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