The Old Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 February 1987. House.
The Old Hall
- WRENN ID
- far-cupola-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- The Wrekin MP: Mark Pritchard (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 February 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Hall, 1 and 2, Cheswardine
- OS grid reference
- SJ 719 299
- Coordinates
- 52.86629, -2.41788
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Hall is a house that has been divided into two residences. It dates from the mid-18th century, possibly incorporating an earlier structure, with later additions made in the 19th century. The building is constructed of red brick with red sandstone ashlar dressings and features a plain tile roof. It has an H-plan layout with projecting gabled cross wings and 19th-century extensions at the rear of the right-hand cross wing.
The house is two storeys tall with an attic and has a chamfered stone plinth. There are pairs of star-shaped brick ridge stacks located off-centre to the left and right, along with an external brick end stack at the rear of the left-hand wing and two brick stacks on the right-hand wing. The façade is arranged in a 1:3:1 bay pattern, with late 20th-century cross windows that have stone sills and gauged brick heads with flush keystones. The right-hand cross wing features blind windows.
A small-paned half-glazed door is located in the second bay from the left, framed by a lugged architrave, fluted frieze, and moulded cornice. There are 19th-century external steps with a wooden balustrade leading up to a hipped-roofed porch. The cross wings have three-bay return fronts, with the right-hand return front featuring a full-height half-octagonal bay from the 19th century.
The layout suggests that The Old Hall was a rebuilding of an earlier house, likely completed in multiple phases, as indicated by the variations in brick bond and other details on the façade. The ground-floor window in the left-hand cross wing appears to have been altered, suggesting evidence of a wider opening, and the gable of this wing has also been rebuilt.
Local climate
The Old Hall receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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