Shrewsbury Station is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 May 1969. Station. 12 related planning applications.
Shrewsbury Station
- WRENN ID
- sacred-wattle-mist
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- Shrewsbury MP: Julia Buckley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 May 1969
- Type
- Station
- Address
- Shrewsbury Station, Castle Foregate, SY1 2DQ
- OS grid reference
- SJ 494 129
- Coordinates
- 52.71179, -2.74977
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Shrewsbury Station is a railway station built in 1849 and extended around 1900, designed by Thomas Penson Junior from Oswestry. The building features an ashlar façade and a Welsh slate roof, showcasing a Tudor Gothic style. It has three storeys, although it was originally two. The station has a 25-window range, divided into four principal bays, which are highlighted by polygonal buttresses with finials. The design is asymmetrical, featuring a tower above the main entrance and an advanced wing to the left.
The entrance tower is four storeys high and includes an oriel window on the third stage, topped by a clock. It has polygonal angle pinnacles and a parapet. The windows are mullioned and transomed, consisting of three and four lights, with decorative glazing and hoodmoulds. There are string courses between the storeys, adorned with quatrefoil panels, and the parapet includes traceried panels. The roof features ridge cresting and axial octagonal stacks. A glazed canopy projects from the first floor, and the platforms are covered by a series of transverse glazed gables. Originally two storeys, the building was modified to include a lower ground floor to provide tunnel access to the platforms.
Local climate
Shrewsbury Station 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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- Related listed building consents — 12 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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