The Elephant and Castle Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 October 1986. A C18 Inn. 1 related planning application.
The Elephant and Castle Hotel
- WRENN ID
- lost-parapet-storm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- North Shropshire MP: Helen Morgan (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 October 1986
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- The Elephant and Castle Hotel, Shawbury, SY4 4NZ
- OS grid reference
- SJ 558 212
- Coordinates
- 52.78745, -2.65572
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Elephant and Castle Hotel is an inn dated 1734, which was remodeled in the early 19th century. It features rendered brick on a grey sandstone ashlar plinth and has a slate roof that is hipped to the right. The building is L-shaped and consists of two storeys. Architectural details include a plinth, a dentil brick eaves cornice, and stone-coped parapeted gable ends. There is an integral brick stack at the front on the left, an external brick end stack on the right-hand return, and three stacks at the rear. The hotel has four bays with glazing bar sashes. In the second bay from the right, there is a pair of late 20th-century doors beneath a stuccoed Doric or Tuscan porch, which was damaged at the time of the survey in January 1986. This porch features a three-part rectangular overlight above. Above the doors, there is a painted datestone with a relief of an elephant and castle, inscribed with the date "1734". The right-hand return front has three bays and includes an inserted late 20th-century half-glazed door to the right.
Local climate
The Elephant and Castle Hotel receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 68% 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 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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