Cliff Villas is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1974. Houses.

Cliff Villas

WRENN ID
woven-niche-starling
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Shropshire
Constituency
South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 March 1974
Type
Houses
Address
Cliff Villas, 1 and 2, Ludford
OS grid reference
SO 512 741
Coordinates
52.36331, -2.71735
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Cliff Villas are a pair of houses built in the mid-19th century. They feature a mix of rubble, roughcast, and sham timber-framing, topped with a plain tile roof that has twin gables at the front. The houses have brick end stacks with multiple shafts. The design follows a two-unit plan in a cottage orne style, with two storeys, an attic, and a cellar.

The front facade has a two-window range, showcasing canted oriel windows with metal glazing bars, moulded cornices, and underhangs, above mullion windows set in chamfered reveals with stone drip-courses. The central entrance bay is recessed and has matching plank doors. Above the entrance is a balcony supported by chamfered oak posts and adorned with spat balusters. Access to the balcony is through narrow plank doors with pointed heads, although these have been replaced by 20th-century glazing on the right side.

The ornamental barge-boards, plaster work, and timber-framing add to the architectural interest. The rear of the houses is roughcast and features various leaded lights, sash windows, and casements, with some 20th-century alterations on the left. The returned sides are made of rubble and have banded brick stack bases, with a stone tablet on the right side.

Local climate

Cliff Villas receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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