Red Abbey is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1986. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Red Abbey
- WRENN ID
- frozen-cobalt-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- Shrewsbury MP: Julia Buckley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Red Abbey, Abbey Lane, Alberbury with Cardeston, SY5 9AF
- OS grid reference
- SJ 372 149
- Coordinates
- 52.72816, -2.93089
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Red Abbey is a late 18th-century farmhouse constructed of red brick in a Flemish garden wall bond, with slate roofs. It is arranged in a T-plan, featuring a semi-circular stair tower to the rear of the building. The house has three storeys, with a dentil brick eaves cornice and integral brick end stacks.
The south-east front has two windows, with glazing bar sashes and segmental gauged brick heads. The second floor features a two-light wooden casement to the right and a late 19th-century cast iron two-light casement to the left, both with lattice lights. A central four-panelled door, with the top panels glazed, is topped by a moulded architrave and a flat hood supported on shaped brackets. A central, semi-circular stair tower is located at the rear and features a tall stair window. There are also single-storey lean-to service blocks flanking the stair tower.
Inside, an oak newel stair is present in the stair tower. The stair tower is considered an unusual feature for a house of this date.
Local climate
Red Abbey receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% 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 — 5 transactions since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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