The Boathouse Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1953. Public house.
The Boathouse Inn
- WRENN ID
- secret-keep-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- Shrewsbury MP: Julia Buckley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1953
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Boathouse Inn, Porthill Road, Shrewsbury
- OS grid reference
- SJ 484 126
- Coordinates
- 52.70882, -2.76399
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Boathouse Inn is a public house that dates largely from the late 16th century to early 17th century, with later additions. It features a timber-framed structure that has been extended in brick, with mock timber cladding and a plain tiled roof. The building is two storeys high and has four parallel gables of varying widths facing the street. The original structure likely had a long range and cross wing form, which is visible in the south elevation that faces the river.
The street front includes doorways in the left and right-hand gables, along with casement windows of one and two lights, each with single ring cambered heads. The original building is probably represented by the three left-hand bays, which are made of brick with some mock framing over what may be original timberwork in the outer gable. The right-hand gable appears to be a 19th or 20th-century addition.
On the south elevation, there is a long range to the right that is partly concealed by a flat-roofed extension, but it features two dormers in the roof. The cross range to the left has a brick ground floor and tall timber-framed panels with long raking braces above. The first floor and gable apex have three-light casement windows inserted. There is also a late 19th or early 20th-century gable to the left, which is made of brick with mock timber cladding in the high gable apex. The building has axial stacks.
Local climate
The Boathouse Inn 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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