The Menagerie is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 October 1960. Menagerie.
The Menagerie
- WRENN ID
- mired-paling-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- The Wrekin MP: Mark Pritchard (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 October 1960
- Type
- Menagerie
- Address
- The Menagerie, Hawkstone Park, Weston-Under-Redcastle
- OS grid reference
- SJ 575 289
- Coordinates
- 52.85661, -2.63124
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Menagerie is a semi-ruinous structure dating from the late 18th century, likely built for Sir Richard Hill, the second baronet of Hawkstone. It is constructed from regularly coursed and dressed red sandstone and is currently roofless. The building features three surviving walls that enclose a rectangular area measuring approximately 12 by 6 meters and reaching a maximum height of 6 meters. At the front, there are collapsed remains of an open five-bay pointed arcade with an embattled parapet. To the left and right, there are remnants of attached screen walls, which also previously had pointed arches, standing up to five courses high as of the last survey in March 1986. Located on the southern slope of Elysian Hill, the Menagerie once housed a collection of stuffed birds in the early 19th century. The arcade collapsed following a gale in 1952.
Local climate
The Menagerie receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% 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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