68, Abbey Foregate is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. House. 4 related planning applications.
68, Abbey Foregate
- WRENN ID
- kindled-floor-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- Shrewsbury MP: Julia Buckley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- 68, Abbey Foregate, Shrewsbury, SY2 6BG
- OS grid reference
- SJ 500 123
- Coordinates
- 52.70689, -2.74001
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a mid-19th century house located on Abbey Foregate in Shrewsbury. It is constructed of brick with a Welsh slate roof. The house is three storeys high and has a three-window facade. A central doorway is accessed via steps leading up to a portico featuring paired, fluted Doric columns and a triglyph frieze. Canted bay windows are positioned on either side of the doorway, featuring two-pane sash windows with narrow margin lights. The upper windows are four-pane sashes set within moulded architraves, with a pediment over the central window. A string course runs above the first-floor windows. The upper level includes six-pane sash windows in the attic and an eaves parapet. A wide dormer is visible in the roof.
Local climate
68, 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2018
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- 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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