Ye Olde Vaults Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 May 1986. House, inn. 15 related planning applications.

Ye Olde Vaults Inn

WRENN ID
slow-porch-winter
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Shropshire
Constituency
North Shropshire MP: Helen Morgan (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 May 1986
Type
House, inn
Address
Ye Olde Vaults Inn, Church Street, Oswestry, SY11 2SP
OS grid reference
SJ 289 295
Coordinates
52.85873, -3.05615
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Ye Olde Vaults Inn is a house that has been converted into an inn, dating from the late 15th century or early 16th century, with significant remodeling in the late 18th century and early 19th century, along with later additions and alterations. The building features a timber frame that is concealed by a rendered brick facade, topped with a slate roof and internal red brick end stacks. It stands three storeys high and has a moulded wooden eaves cornice. The front has three windows, which are glazing bar sashes set in moulded stone surrounds, complete with eared architraves and small keystones. The 19th-century inn front has been largely renewed, featuring 20th-century doors leading to a round-arched passageway on the left and an entrance to the right of centre. Elliptical arches flanking the entrance have 20th-century fixed-light windows. At the rear, there is a gabled range that is rendered on the left side, while fragmentary square panels are exposed on the right. Inside the passageway leading to the King's Head Inn, square panels can be seen on the right gable end, along with a carved bracket that indicates the location of a former jetty at the front.

Local climate

Ye Olde Vaults Inn receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2018
  • Related listed building consents — 15 applications
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