The Mount is a Grade II* listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1953. House, office. 2 related planning applications.
The Mount
- WRENN ID
- vacant-moulding-harvest
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- Shrewsbury MP: Julia Buckley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1953
- Type
- House, office
- Address
- The Mount, Frankwell, Shrewsbury, SY3 8PU
- OS grid reference
- SJ 485 130
- Coordinates
- 52.71283, -2.76333
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Mount is a house, now used as offices, built around 1800. It is constructed of brick with stone dressings, and the roof is not visible behind a parapet. The building has three storeys and a five-window range in the main block, with lower wings on either side. The central entrance features a porch supported by Tuscan columns, which hold up an entablature with a triglyph frieze. The windows are 12-pane sash types with flat-arched, finely gauged brick heads, and the windows above the door have stressed stone architraves. There is a continuous sill band at the first floor, along with a stone cornice and parapet. To the left, there is a single-storey, four-window range with blank arcading that contains 12-pane sash windows. To the right, a two-storey, single-window range has been added, along with a lower bay that features a canted bay window and a lantern light above. The building has gable end stacks. Inside, there is elaborate plasterwork decoration in some of the ground floor rooms, as well as a cantilevered stone stair with cast-iron balusters. Historically, this house is notable as the birthplace of Charles Darwin in 1809.
Local climate
The Mount 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2016
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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