3-6, A5 is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 February 1985. Cottage row. 1 related planning application.

3-6, A5

WRENN ID
kindled-alcove-jay
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Shropshire
Constituency
South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 February 1985
Type
Cottage row
Address
3-6, A5, Atcham, SY5 6QE
OS grid reference
SJ 542 092
Coordinates
52.6794, -2.67878
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Nos. 3-6 are a row of four cottages built in the late 18th century or early 19th century, likely designed by John Nash and possibly incorporating an earlier structure. The cottages are rendered over brick and possibly timber frame, with sandstone and cement rendered dressings, and feature a plain tile roof. They are arranged in an L-plan and exhibit a Gothick style. The buildings are one storey and attic with two storeys.

The west front has quoins, coped verge parapets, and dentil brick eaves cornices. It features a central brick ridge stack and an integral brick end stack to the right. The front has four windows with gables over the ends, mainly consisting of 2- and 3-light wooden casements from the mid to late 19th century. Notably, there is a hipped Gothick canted ground-floor bay beneath the left-hand gable, which has a continuous cill to 2-light ogee-headed windows with Y-tracery. Above this bay, there is a small circular window. A segmental-headed boarded door is located between the first and second windows, slightly off-centre to the right.

On the north front, there are three gabled eaves dormers with 2-light casements, scalloped barge boards, and finials. The front has five windows featuring mid- to late 19th-century segmental-headed wooden cross windows. To the right, there is a segmental-headed 7-panelled door, and to the left, there are two segmental-headed boarded doors, one at the far left and another between the second and third windows from the left.

These cottages were likely part of a picturesque late 18th or early 19th-century estate village scheme designed by Nash for the second Lord Berwick. A series of painted panels hanging in Attingham Park may depict Nash's intended scheme, which predates his more famous Blaise Hamlet near Bristol.

Local climate

3-6, A5 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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