The Boar's Head Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 January 1985. Inn. 2 related planning applications.

The Boar's Head Inn

WRENN ID
waiting-merlon-brook
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Shropshire
Constituency
South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 January 1985
Type
Inn
Address
The Boar's Head Inn, 28, Church Street, Bishop's Castle, SY9 5AE
OS grid reference
SO 323 886
Coordinates
52.49135, -2.99791
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Boar's Head Inn is a house that has been converted into an inn, originally built in the 17th century, with some refacing and partial rebuilding in the early to mid-19th century, and 20th-century additions at the rear. The building features a timber frame that has been partly rebuilt and refaced, likely using coursed limestone rubble and stucco that has been incised to resemble ashlar. It has a slate roof with a catslide over the outshut at the rear. The structure consists of five framed bays, with a basement and two storeys.

There is a brick ridge stack located off-centre to the right, a lateral integral brick stack off-centre to the left at the front, and a lateral semi-integral brick stack off-centre to the left at the rear. The first floor has five windows, which are late 19th-century two-light casements. On the ground floor, there are four 16-pane glazing bar sash windows, three of which are to the left and have flush frames. A boarded door is situated between the first and second windows from the right, leading to a late 20th-century glazed lean-to porch. There is also a later addition to the south at the rear. Inside, there is evidence of a former jettied first floor in the right-hand framed bay, indicated by shaped brackets and a bressumer.

Local climate

The Boar's Head Inn receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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