Ridgemount is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. House, school house.
Ridgemount
- WRENN ID
- under-wall-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- Shrewsbury MP: Julia Buckley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House, school house
- Address
- Ridgemount, Porthill Road, Shrewsbury
- OS grid reference
- SJ 483 123
- Coordinates
- 52.70619, -2.76567
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ridgemount is a house that has been converted into a school house. It was originally built in the early 19th century and extended around 1926 for its new purpose. The building is constructed of brick and features a Welsh slate roof. It stands two storeys high and has a four-window range with a central entrance. The entrance is highlighted by a Doric porch, which is flanked by full-height canted bays that contain 12-pane sash windows with flat-arched gauged brick heads. There is an additional 12-pane sash window to the right of the entrance. The building has a parapet with unmoulded copings. The rear wing, which houses the school accommodations, was added in a Neo-Georgian style.
Local climate
Ridgemount 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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