51, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 July 1949. A {} House.
51, High Street
- WRENN ID
- lost-rafter-dale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 July 1949
- Type
- House
- Period
- {}
- Address
- 51, High Street, Bridgnorth, WV16 4DX
- OS grid reference
- SO 716 931
- Coordinates
- 52.53527, -2.41932
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 51 High Street is an early 17th-century building featuring a post and panel timber frame with plaster. It has two storeys, with the upper storey overhanging. The façade includes two early 19th-century sash windows and two restored gabled dormers, all beneath a tiled roof. The building originally housed an open shop with a slated pentice roof that extends over the adjoining Swan Inn. No. 51, along with Nos. 50 and 51, the Swan Inn, and Nos. 53 to 57, form a cohesive group of historic structures.
Local climate
51, High Street receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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