Old School House and Prudence Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. Cottages. 1 related planning application.
Old School House and Prudence Cottage
- WRENN ID
- hidden-transept-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- Shrewsbury MP: Julia Buckley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- Old School House and Prudence Cottage, Vicarge Road, Shrewsbury, SY3 9EZ
- OS grid reference
- SJ 485 107
- Coordinates
- 52.69171, -2.76227
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old School House and Prudence Cottage form a pair of cottages, largely dating to the 18th century, though with a part dated 1683 which may be unreliable. Their construction is in brick, topped with a plain tiled hipped roof. The two-storey Old School House has a doorway on its left side and a projecting canted bay window with a continuous lean-to porch roof. Above the bay are casement windows with 2 and 3 lights. Prudence Cottage is a single-storey and attic structure. It features a central door recessed within a gabled porch, flanked by 2-light casement windows, and incorporates two gabled dormers. A nogged string course runs through both cottages, being interrupted by the porch, and a possible blocked doorway is visible to the left. The right-hand bay is a separate build and is distinguished by a dentilled eaves cornice. A renewed datestone bearing the initials "I over RE" is present.
Local climate
Old School House and Prudence Cottage 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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