42, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 July 1949. A C18 Commercial.
42, High Street
- WRENN ID
- lost-tallow-umber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 July 1949
- Type
- Commercial
- Address
- 42, High Street, Bridgnorth, WV16 4DB
- OS grid reference
- SO 716 930
- Coordinates
- 52.53485, -2.41978
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 42 on High Street is an 18th-century building constructed of painted brick. It has three storeys and an attic, featuring two sash windows, a brick band, and a wooden modillion eaves cornice. The building includes one gabled dormer and is roofed with tiles. There is an early 19th-century shop bay window with glazing bars, a recessed doorway on the left, and a moulded cornice above, which is topped with an ornamental fascia board displaying "Steward Medical Hall" in raised white lettering. This property is part of a group that includes Nos. 40 to 43 and No. 43A.
Local climate
42, High Street receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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