Morfe House is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 February 1993. House.
Morfe House
- WRENN ID
- moated-vestry-umber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- Shrewsbury MP: Julia Buckley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 February 1993
- Type
- House
- Address
- Morfe House, Belle Vue Road, Shrewsbury
- OS grid reference
- SJ 495 117
- Coordinates
- 52.70121, -2.74772
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Morfe House is a house originally built as a pair around 1860 by Samuel Pountney Smith. It features an ashlar facade with a brick rear and a slate mansard roof, designed in the French Baroque style. The building has two storeys with attics and a two-window range, intended to appear as a single house. There are side entrances framed by architraves with entablatures supported by console brackets. The front has squared bay windows with casements and cast-iron balustrading above. Above are sash windows and two dormers in the roof. The rear elevation includes shallow canted bay windows, and the stair windows have stained glass that incorporates medieval fragments. Inside, there is a simple decorative scheme with panelled arched recesses in the front rooms and plaster cornices. Pountney Smith built these houses as speculative developments, acquiring the property around 1860. Morfe House forms a pair with Kinnersley House.
Local climate
Morfe House receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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