Pool House is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 November 1987. Cottage.

Pool House

WRENN ID
stranded-steeple-plum
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Shropshire
Constituency
Shrewsbury MP: Julia Buckley (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 November 1987
Type
Cottage
Address
Pool House, Montford
OS grid reference
SJ 417 183
Coordinates
52.75955, -2.86459
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Pool House is a late 17th-century cottage, originally shown on the Ordnance Survey map as The Cottage. It features a timber frame with plastered infill set on a brick plinth and has a graded slate roof. The framing consists of light rectangular panels, with three panels extending from the sole plate to the wall plate, supported by long straight and curved tension braces. The building is one storey with an attic and has a two-storey rear wing, forming an L-plan with two framed bays and a single framed bay in the rear wing.

The south-east front has a rendered external brick end stack on the left side. There is an off-centre gabled eaves dormer to the left, which contains a 20th-century three-light wooden casement window. To the left on the ground floor, there is another 20th-century three-light wooden casement, while to the right, a 20th-century glazed door is sheltered by a gabled timber-framed porch. A 19th-century two-light wooden basement casement is located to the left. The right-hand gable end features a collar and tie-beam truss with queen struts.

At the rear, there is an outshut with a catslide roof. The rear wing has a two-window front facing north-east, with a mix of 19th and 20th-century wooden and metal casements, as well as a central 20th-century glazed door with a gabled porch. An external brick lateral stack is located at the rear angle, accompanied by a small slate-roofed bread oven. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Pool House receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% 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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