Former Monkmoor School is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 1995. School. 3 related planning applications.
Former Monkmoor School
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-steeple-winter
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- Shrewsbury MP: Julia Buckley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 October 1995
- Type
- School
- Address
- Former Monkmoor School, the Chase, Racecourse Crescent, Shrewsbury, SY2 5BX
- OS grid reference
- SJ 506 129
- Coordinates
- 52.71192, -2.7318
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former Monkmoor School is a senior open-air school built in 1928-30. It is constructed of red brick and half-timbering with a plain tile roof and tall brick stacks, and incorporates a blue brick plinth. The building has a double courtyard plan arranged around a central assembly hall. The ground floor is brick with herringbone nogging, while the upper floors are timber-framed with plaster infill.
The entrance front features a recessed gabled centre with a set-back ground floor, incorporating a central foundation plaque flanked by single doors. The upper floor has a large three-light glazing bar window supported on iron columns. Projecting gabled pavilions flank the entrance, each with an ashlar Tudor arched doorway and two glazing bar windows above. Upper gables incorporate tripartite glazing bar windows. Classroom wings feature an open wooden arcade with set-back full-height glazing bar windows, and the upper floors have four tall dormer windows with two-light glazing bar casements on each side. Similar end pavilions have Tudor ashlar doorways and two glazing bar windows. Side wings feature very tall through-eaves dormer windows with gables and glazing bars. The inner courtyard facades show wooden arcades, full-height glazing bar windows, and gabled dormer windows above. The central Assembly Hall has four tall through-eaves dormer windows with gables and glazing bars, and stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops.
The school is listed as a well-preserved example of its type, demonstrating good quality design.
Local climate
Former Monkmoor School receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% 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 — 2 transactions since 2004
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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