140, Abbey Foregate is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. House. 1 related planning application.
140, Abbey Foregate
- WRENN ID
- fallen-hinge-winter
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- Shrewsbury MP: Julia Buckley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- 140, Abbey Foregate, Shrewsbury, SY2 6AP
- OS grid reference
- SJ 503 122
- Coordinates
- 52.70574, -2.73658
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 140 Abbey Foregate is a house dating from the later 18th century. It is constructed of brick and has a Welsh slate roof. The building is two storeys high and features a two-window range. To the left, there is a six-panelled door set within a simple architrave. The windows are two-light wood mullioned and transomed, with segmentally-arched heads, and there is a blind central window on each floor. The house has a dentilled eaves cornice and two gabled dormers in the roof, which are adorned with fretted barge-boards. An axial stack is present on the building.
Local climate
140, 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2007
- 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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