The Buffalo Hotel and Former Barn Adjoining to the West is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 March 1968. Inn.
The Buffalo Hotel and Former Barn Adjoining to the West
- WRENN ID
- last-rampart-russet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 March 1968
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- The Buffalo Hotel and Former Barn Adjoining to the West, SY7 8JA
- OS grid reference
- SO 300 808
- Coordinates
- 52.42125, -3.0304
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Buffalo Hotel and the former barn adjoining to the west is a house and barn that has been converted into an inn. It dates from around the 17th century and was remodelled and extended in the mid-19th century. The building is constructed from squared and coursed limestone, topped with a slate and graded stone slate roof. It features a gabled range that runs at right angles to the road on the left side.
The structure is two storeys tall with an attic. On the right side, there is an integral brick end stack, while on the left, a large 17th-century brick and stone external lateral stack connects to the attic via a pitched roof. The building has deep eaves, and the left-hand gable is adorned with decorative barge boards. The front has a 2+2 window arrangement with an attic window in the left gable. The 19th-century wooden cross windows have flat arches and projecting keystones. The central entrance features a six-panelled door, with the bottom flush, the centre raised-and-fielded, and the top glazed, all framed by a plain doorcase and supported by shaped brackets beneath a triangular-pedimented hood. To the left, there is a three-stepped former mounting block.
On the right side, there is a one-storey addition that has a central brick stack in front of the ridge, four segmental-headed small-paned fixed-light windows to the right, and a 20th-century half-glazed door to the left with sidelights and a segmental-headed overlight. Inside, there is a 19th-century staircase featuring a closed string, turned balusters, a moulded handrail, and a square newel post.
The barn, which is now part of the hotel, is timber framed, partly rendered, and rebuilt in brick at the rear, with a coursed limestone rubble end wall to the west and a slate roof. It is one storey high with a partial loft, featuring five small 20th-century casements to the left and large double doors to the right.
Local climate
The Buffalo Hotel and Former Barn Adjoining to the West receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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