The Vicarage is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 May 1955. House. 1 related planning application.

The Vicarage

WRENN ID
seventh-truss-moth
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Shropshire
Constituency
The Wrekin MP: Mark Pritchard (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 May 1955
Type
House
Address
The Vicarage, Church Street, Shifnal, TF11 9AB
OS grid reference
SJ 746 074
Coordinates
52.66415, -2.37593
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a house dating from the middle to late 18th century, located in Shifnal. It is constructed of red brick with a hipped roof covered in old tile. The house is three storeys high and features a rendered plinth, rendered sills to the central bay, pilaster strips, and a moulded wooden eaves cornice with a small triangular pediment over the centre bay. A stack is located at the rear of the building. There are five bays, with the central bay slightly projecting. The windows are glazing bar sashes with gauged heads; the second floor window in the centre bay has a lugged architrave, and the first-floor window has a lugged architrave, pulvinated frieze, and cornice.

The central entrance door has six raised and fielded panels, an architrave, and a semi-circular fanlight with intersecting Gothic tracery. The doorcase consists of two fluted, three-quarter Doric columns supporting a broken entablature with a triglyph frieze, and an open triangular pediment with paterae on the soffit. Two small, flanking, round arched side lights have sashes. The side elevations have two bays each.

Inside, there is an 18th-century square well staircase that rises over two floors, with landings. The staircase has an open string, turned balusters, a moulded ramped handrail with inlay at the foot, column newels, and a curved top landing balustrade.

Local climate

The Vicarage receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% 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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  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 1996
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • 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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