74 and 75, Abbey Foregate is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. House. 1 related planning application.
74 and 75, Abbey Foregate
- WRENN ID
- peeling-pilaster-crimson
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- Shrewsbury MP: Julia Buckley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- 74 and 75, Abbey Foregate, Shrewsbury, SY2 6BE
- OS grid reference
- SJ 501 123
- Coordinates
- 52.70656, -2.73883
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A pair of houses dating to around 1820. The buildings are constructed of brick with a low-pitched roof of Welsh slate. They form a three-storey, four-window arrangement, with a pair of doorways positioned towards the right-hand side. The doorways have six-panelled doors set within moulded architraves. The windows are mostly four-pane sashes, with the upper windows on the left-hand side being twenty-pane sashes. A door provides access to a passage on the right. The building features a brick and stone eaves parapet, as well as gable and axial stacks.
Local climate
74 and 75, Abbey Foregate 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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