4, 5 and 5a The Square is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1953. Shop, former public house. 3 related planning applications.
4, 5 and 5a The Square
- WRENN ID
- brooding-gallery-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- Shrewsbury MP: Julia Buckley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1953
- Type
- Shop, former public house
- Address
- 4, 5 and 5a The Square, Shrewsbury, SY1 1LA
- OS grid reference
- SJ 491 124
- Coordinates
- 52.70764, -2.75455
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a late 16th-century timber-framed shop and former public house, originally a dwelling, located on the north-west side of The Square in Shrewsbury. The building is three storeys high and originally had a three-window front. The ground floor has been renewed with brick nogging, featuring a central and outer doorway. A round-arched window is present on the left-hand side of the shop, and an oriel bay window is located on the public house side. The upper storeys are each jettied out on a moulded bressumer and framed in small panels. Decorative features include ogee tension bracing and quatrefoil panelling in the upper storey. The vertical timber members have raised twisted shaft decoration and quatrefoil emblems. There are three oriel windows with mullions, transoms, and leaded lights on each floor, supported by moulded corbel brackets. Enriched bargeboards are above the gables of the upper windows. Two rear wall stacks are present.
Local climate
4, 5 and 5a The Square 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2013
- 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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