Old Crown House is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1986. Farmhouse, inn, house. 2 related planning applications.
Old Crown House
- WRENN ID
- small-pinnacle-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 February 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse, inn, house
- Address
- Old Crown House, Crown Lane, Cressage, SY5 6BT
- OS grid reference
- SJ 590 040
- Coordinates
- 52.63238, -2.607
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Crown House is an early 17th-century farmhouse, formerly an inn, and now a house. It was originally a hall house of two framed bays with a single-bay cross-wing set at right angles to the rear. A 19th-century brick addition was built to the right of the hall, completing a present T-shaped plan.
The house has timber framing on a brick plinth, with painted brick infill and plain tile roofs. The framing consists of rectangular panels, three from sill to wall plate, with short straight tension braces and V-struts from the collar to the left gable end. There are 20th-century casements with latticed and leaded glass, three to the left and one to the right of a contemporary nail-studded door. A red brick ridge stack is located immediately to the right of the door, having previously been at the gable end. A Salop Fire Insurance plate numbered 2311 is above the door, and a mid-19th-century cast-iron pump is attached to the back wall.
The interior retains exposed timber framing, including a chamfered spine beam with ogee stops in the main ground-floor room. The hall range has a Queen-strut roof in two bays.
Local climate
Old Crown House receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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 — 1 transaction since 2023
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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