Insurance House is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 March 1974. House, offices.
Insurance House
- WRENN ID
- night-fireplace-vermeil
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 March 1974
- Type
- House, offices
- Address
- Insurance House, 51, High Street, Church Stretton
- OS grid reference
- SO 452 935
- Coordinates
- 52.53746, -2.80815
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Insurance House is a house that has been converted into offices, dating from the late 18th century. It features painted roughcast cement render with a stone plinth topped with moulded ashlar coping, and has a plain-tile roof. The building has a rectangular three-cell plan with a gable end facing the street.
The exterior is two stories high with an attic. The street front includes two 6/6 sash windows with segmental arched heads, lintels, and moulded stone sills on both the ground and first floors. There is one similar sash window in the attic. On the right side, there is a central 6/6 sash window set in a segmental arched opening, with a 20th-century casement window to the left. The central entrance features a moulded wood pilaster doorcase with a radial fanlight and a plain cornice hood supported by console brackets. The rear of the building has 20th-century casement windows and is partly covered by a 20th-century flat-roofed two-story extension. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Insurance House receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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