Willey Furnace Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 March 1975. Cottages.
Willey Furnace Cottages
- WRENN ID
- young-plinth-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 March 1975
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- Willey Furnace Cottages, 16 and 17, Barrow
- OS grid reference
- SJ 673 005
- Coordinates
- 52.60169, -2.48294
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Willey Furnace Cottages, located in Broseley, date back to around 1760 and have undergone later alterations. Originally, these buildings served as a warehouse for John Wilkinson's New Willey Ironworks, which operated from 1757 to 1808. The cottages are constructed of red brick and feature two storeys with a basement. Each elevation has a gabled roof, and the windows have segmental heads. The ground storey windows include keyblocks and generally retain small-paned iron casements, although some windows have been blocked. The doorways are plain and also have segmental heads. As of 1974, No. 17 was unoccupied and required repair and improvement.
Local climate
Willey Furnace Cottages receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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