48, High Street is a Grade II* listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1950. House. 5 related planning applications.
48, High Street
- WRENN ID
- errant-grate-solstice
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 October 1950
- Type
- House
- Address
- 48, High Street, Much Wenlock, TF13 6AD
- OS grid reference
- SO 621 998
- Coordinates
- 52.59497, -2.5596
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 48 on High Street is a building mainly constructed of 18th-century stone, with earlier stone rubble visible on the right-hand side, which is likely part of No 49. The building has two storeys and features three windows in moulded wood frames, although the central window is blocked. It has a simple moulded wood doorcase topped with an open pediment and an earlier chimney stack with diagonal brick shafts. The entrance is marked by brick piers with stuccoed acorn heads leading to the pavement. This building is part of a group that includes Nos 40 to 45, the Fox Hotel, and Nos 47 to 49.
Local climate
48, High Street 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2004
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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