Barker's Chambers is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. Shop, office premises. 1 related planning application.

Barker's Chambers

WRENN ID
steep-vestry-wagtail
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Shropshire
Constituency
Shrewsbury MP: Julia Buckley (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Shop, office premises
Address
Barker's Chambers, 2, Barker Street, Shrewsbury, SY1 1QF
OS grid reference
SJ 489 125
Coordinates
52.708, -2.75712
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Barker's Chambers is a shop and office building located in Shrewsbury, constructed in 1937 while restoring an earlier 18th-century structure. The building is made of brick and features a plain tiled roof. It has three storeys and a five-window range, with a prominent entrance bay on the left side. The round-arched doorway includes a fanlight and voussoirs. To the right, there is an inserted shop front. The building has 12-pane sash windows with flat-arched gauged brick heads that feature keystones. Above the door, there is a window with a moulded stone architrave. The date of construction is displayed in a cartouche above the entrance bay, which forms part of the eaves parapet. The building also has end wall stacks.

Local climate

Barker's Chambers receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% 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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