Former Bowdler's School is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1953. A Georgian School, offices.
Former Bowdler's School
- WRENN ID
- brooding-bastion-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- Shrewsbury MP: Julia Buckley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1953
- Type
- School, offices
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- Former Bowdler's School, Beeches Lane, Shrewsbury
- OS grid reference
- SJ 493 122
- Coordinates
- 52.70598, -2.75102
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Former Bowdler's School, now used as offices, dates back to 1724. It is constructed of brick with painted stone dressings and features a plain tiled roof. The building has two storeys and a hipped roof with gabled dormers. It is arranged in three bays, with the outer bays slightly advanced. The central doorway is framed by a shouldered architrave and topped with a heavy segmental pediment that has an inscribed stone noting "Founded by Thomas Bowdler 1724." This doorway is linked to a window above it, which is adorned with elaborate consoles over the sill. All windows are casements with transoms, featuring moulded sills and segmentally-arched heads with keystones. There is a continuous string course above the ground floor and a projecting modillion eaves band. The building's design is emphasized by angle quoins at the outer bays, and it has a coped gable at the rear along with a side wall stack.
Local climate
Former Bowdler's School 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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