St John's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1974. House.

St John's Cottage

WRENN ID
quiet-nave-sorrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Shropshire
Constituency
South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 March 1974
Type
House
Address
St John's Cottage, St John's Lane, Ludlow
OS grid reference
SO 513 743
Coordinates
52.36546, -2.71645
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

St John's Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century. It features a timber-frame structure with painted brick and has a 20th-century plain tile roof, along with a brick end stack. The cottage is single-storey with an attic and has a single window range that includes a 20th-century fixed light with glazing bars and shutters. There is a probable blocked doorway to the right. The right side of the cottage has a 20th-century, two-light casement window in the gable, situated above a rubble outshut with a plank door. On the left side, there is an outshut that includes 19th-century casements and a rendered stack base.

Local climate

St John's Cottage receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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