50 and 51, Abbey Foregate is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1953. A C19 Houses. 2 related planning applications.
50 and 51, Abbey Foregate
- WRENN ID
- vacant-pier-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- Shrewsbury MP: Julia Buckley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1953
- Type
- Houses
- Address
- 50 and 51, Abbey Foregate, Shrewsbury, SY2 6BQ
- OS grid reference
- SJ 499 124
- Coordinates
- 52.7073, -2.74166
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
50 and 51 Abbey Foregate is a pair of houses built around 1860. They are constructed of brick and feature a Welsh slate roof. The buildings are two storeys high with an attic raised over a basement, and they present a four-window range. The outer doorways are three-centred arched, accessed by steps, and are adorned with hoodmoulds and eight-panelled doors. Each house has canted bay windows with stone dressings and a parapet, as well as mullions and transoms for the sash windows. These bay windows are located on either side of a central window that also has mullions and transoms, topped with a hoodmould over a flat-arched head. The upper windows are also sashes, featuring mullions and transoms along with hoodmoulds. The houses have a moulded stone eaves cornice and two coped gables with stone finials. There is an axial stack with star-like flues.
Local climate
50 and 51, Abbey Foregate 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 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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