Beech House is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 June 1983. House.
Beech House
- WRENN ID
- pitched-hammer-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- North Shropshire MP: Helen Morgan (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 June 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- Beech House, Ellesmere Road, Wem Urban
- OS grid reference
- SJ 506 290
- Coordinates
- 52.85634, -2.73478
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Beech House is an early to mid 19th century red brick house located on Ellesmere Road. It features a low pitched hipped roof made of Welsh slate and has bracketed eaves. The house is two storeys high and consists of three bays. It has sash windows with glazing bars and plain lintels. The central doorway is framed by a porch supported by thin Tuscan columns, which hold up a heavy entablature with a decorative wrought iron balcony above. The entrance also includes a segmental fanlight. A large brick chimney stack with grouped shafts is present on the building.
Local climate
Beech House receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% 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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