The Post Office, Shop Cottage and 4 and 5, Main Street is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 February 1974. A Early C19 Cottage.
The Post Office, Shop Cottage and 4 and 5, Main Street
- WRENN ID
- strange-lancet-ridge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 February 1974
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Post Office, Shop Cottage and 4 and 5, Main Street, Worfield, Bridgnorth, WV15 5LF
- OS grid reference
- SO 758 956
- Coordinates
- 52.55829, -2.35757
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Post Office, Shop Cottage, and Nos 4 and 5 on Main Street in Worfield is a simple cottage range dating from the early 19th century. It is constructed of painted brick, likely over an earlier timber frame, and features one storey plus an attic. The building has three casement windows and three doorways with plank doors. There are five gabled dormers and dentilled eaves, with a tiled roof. Originally, this structure served as a workhouse. It is included in the listing for its group value, as it is part of a collection of buildings that includes St Peter's Church, The Post Office, Shop Cottage, Nos 4 to 7 (consecutive), Crow Cottage, Nos 9 to 12 (consecutive), and The Club House.
Local climate
The Post Office, Shop Cottage and 4 and 5, Main Street 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 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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