73a, Abbey Foregate is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. House.
73a, Abbey Foregate
- WRENN ID
- knotted-shingle-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- Shrewsbury MP: Julia Buckley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- 73a, Abbey Foregate, Shrewsbury
- OS grid reference
- SJ 501 123
- Coordinates
- 52.7066, -2.73895
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a house located at 73A Abbey Foregate in Shrewsbury, built around 1830. It is constructed of brick and features a Welsh slate roof. The building is two stories tall and has a two-window arrangement, with the gable facing the street. There is a doorway on the left, framed by a moulded architrave, and each floor has four-pane sash windows topped with flat-arched stone heads.
Local climate
73a, Abbey Foregate receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% 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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- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2000
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- 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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