The Police Station is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1987. Police station. 4 related planning applications.
The Police Station
- WRENN ID
- high-iron-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 May 1987
- Type
- Police station
- Address
- The Police Station, Sheinton Street, Much Wenlock, TF13 6HU
- OS grid reference
- SJ 623 000
- Coordinates
- 52.59692, -2.55749
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Police Station, built in the mid-19th century, is a brick building with a gault brick plinth. It features quoins, brick bands, window surrounds, and a bracketted eaves cornice. The slate roof has two gables at the rear, each topped with cruciform stacks having overhanging cornices. The eaves are also bracketed, running around the gables. The front facade has two storeys and three windows, with paired pointed-arched windows on the first floor in the outer bays, over triple pointed-arched windows on the ground floor, and a single first-floor window in the centre. Continuous impost bands run across both floors. The central doorway is set within a pointed-arched surround and has a nail-studded door and overlight. A stone plaque above the doorway displays “POLICE STATION” in raised lettering. A wall to the right incorporates gault brick crenellations and a pointed-arch doorway that leads to a small exercise yard, extending around the sides. A small iron plaque to the right of the doorway reads “VR/PERSONS/THROWING/STONES/AT THE/TELEGRAPHS/WILL BE/ PROSECUTED”.
Local climate
The Police Station receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2000
- 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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