Beech Tree House is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1987. House.
Beech Tree House
- WRENN ID
- gilded-quoin-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- North Shropshire MP: Helen Morgan (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Beech Tree House, 82, Shropshire Street, Market Drayton
- OS grid reference
- SJ 672 339
- Coordinates
- 52.90223, -2.48869
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Beech Tree House is a house that was later used as a school, built in the late 18th century. It is constructed of red brick and features a hipped plain tile roof. The building has two storeys and an attic above a basement, with a dentil brick eaves cornice and integral brick end stacks. There are two hipped dormers that contain three-light wooden casements with tile-hung sides. The house has three bays with plate-glass sash windows, which are tripartite in the outer bays, and they have painted stone cills and painted stone lintels with keystones.
The central doorway is adorned with a six-panelled door, where the lower two panels are beaded flush, and it features a wreathed fanlight. The Doric doorcase includes unfluted pilasters that support sections of an entablature and an open triangular pediment. To the right, there is a low two-storey wing from the 19th century, set back from the main structure, which has a brick ridge stack on the left. This wing contains plate-glass tripartite sash windows with stone cills and keyed stone lintels.
At the rear of the main block, there are three bays with segmental-headed glazing bar sashes, with the first-floor windows and the left ground-floor window featuring margin lights. Inside, there is a late 18th-century oak staircase with an open string, cut brackets, stick balusters (two per tread), a moulded handrail, and a square foot newel. The left-hand ground-floor room has an arched recess flanking the fireplace.
Local climate
Beech Tree House receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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