Shrewsbury School, Oldham's Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1995. School house.
Shrewsbury School, Oldham's Hall
- WRENN ID
- narrow-bracket-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- Shrewsbury MP: Julia Buckley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 November 1995
- Type
- School house
- Address
- Shrewsbury School, Oldham's Hall, Ashton Road
- OS grid reference
- SJ 483 121
- Coordinates
- 52.70492, -2.76573
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Shrewsbury School, Oldham's Hall is a school house built in 1911 by WA Forsyth. It is constructed of brick with a plain tiled roof and features two-and-a-half storeys with an asymmetrical layout of 12 windows. The building is designed in a simplified domestic Gothic style, with outer gabled wings that are advanced and paired off-central gables. The main entrance is located in the return elevation of the right-hand wing, with a subsidiary entrance towards the center.
To the left, there is an advanced half-hipped gable that includes tall wood mullioned and transomed windows on each floor. A narrow range of 2-light mullioned and transomed windows is situated to the left, along with three tall dormers that cut through the eaves line above. Beyond this, there are advanced paired gables featuring stressed angle pilasters and a variety of mullioned and transomed windows with 2, 3, and 4 lights. The date is inscribed on a leaded rainwater head.
A long range of four mullioned and transomed windows extends beyond, accompanied by four hipped dormer windows in the roof. The doorway at the angle with the advanced gable has a moulded stone architrave with a lunette above. There is also a canted bay window with stone mullioned windows next to it. The end gable features a full-height canted bay window with stone mullioned and transomed windows, along with a 3-light casement in the gable apex above. The main entrance is located on the side of this gable and has a bolection-moulded architrave. The building includes axial and end wall stacks, with the end wall stacks linked to the roof by tiled gablets. Overall, it is a carefully articulated composition that showcases many of the finest characteristics of Edwardian Free Style and Domestic Revival architecture.
Local climate
Shrewsbury School, Oldham's Hall 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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