Service Block and Attached Wall Approximately 10 Metres to South East of Whitton Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1986. Service block.

Service Block and Attached Wall Approximately 10 Metres to South East of Whitton Hall

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Shropshire
Constituency
Shrewsbury MP: Julia Buckley (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 March 1986
Type
Service block
OS grid reference
SJ 346 090
Coordinates
52.6755, -2.96865
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a service block, now used as a store, with attached walls, dating from the early 18th century. It stands approximately 10 metres to the south-east of Whitton Hall. The building is constructed of red brick with a slate roof. It is two storeys high with a gable-lit attic. A dentil brick eaves cornice runs along the top, and the gable ends are finished with parapets. A central brick stack rises from the ridge.

The south-west front features six windows. These are mostly 2-light wooden casements with small panes and segmental heads. The second window from the left on the first floor is blocked. The left-hand ground-floor window has been reduced to a single light, with the second from the left altered to a single light as well. A painted imitation window is on the right-hand ground floor. A segmental-headed boarded door is situated to the right. Two wooden forecourt gate posts, with chamfered corners and moulded tops, are positioned alongside a gate to the right. A curved red brick wall with stone quoins and coping adjoins the service block to the left, linking it to Whitton Hall. It incorporates a boarded door on its right side.

The left-hand gable end features a segmental-headed 2-light casement and a segmental-headed boarded door. A pent-roofed wooden bellcote is positioned to the right of the attic window. The right-hand gable end has a segmental-headed 2-light attic casement, a 3-light first-floor casement to the right, and a 3-light ground-floor casement. An inserted boarded door is on the right side, with a stone mounting block adjoining to the left, the left-hand corner rising to first-floor height. A piece of garden wall, constructed of red brick with stone coping, adjoins to the right, with a boarded door set off-centre to the left and a ramped return to the rear.

The interior of the ground floor on the north-west side contains a former dairy with low shelves supported by segmental brick arches and a lead-lined cooling tank, which may have been part of a former brewing apparatus. A possible former brewhouse, in the second ground-floor room from the north-west, contains pairs of ogee-stopped spine beams, a depressed-arched open fireplace, and a possible brewing or washing copper with a hood. A staircase from the 18th century is also present. The roof features trusses with elbowed principals resting on tie- and floor-beams, short spurs to wall-plates, and collars, with pairs of purlins. The south-east end of the block is a small cottage. The service block encloses one side of the forecourt to Whitton Hall and stands opposite the stable block.

Local climate

Service Block and Attached Wall Approximately 10 Metres to South East of Whitton Hall receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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