The Music Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 May 1969. A Victorian Civic hall. 3 related planning applications.
The Music Hall
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-newel-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- Shrewsbury MP: Julia Buckley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 May 1969
- Type
- Civic hall
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- The Music Hall, the Square, Shrewsbury, SY1 1LH
- OS grid reference
- SJ 491 124
- Coordinates
- 52.70715, -2.75477
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Music Hall, formerly known as No.11 The Square, is a civic hall built in 1839 by Edward Hiram Haycock. The building features an ashlar-faced exterior, which is rusticated at the basement level. It stands three storeys tall and has a five-window range in a Neo-classical style, characterized by a pedimented central bay that projects forward. A giant Ionic portico is positioned over the basement storey, which includes a central entrance flanked by tripartite windows that have console brackets supporting entablatures. The upper windows behind the portico are 24-pane sash windows set in stressed architraves, with entablatures above the first floor, and the central window features a pediment. The flanking bays have plain tripartite windows on the lower floor and 24-pane sashes above, each topped with pedimented heads. The interior has been substantially altered and now includes the former Masonic Hall as its main function room, along with the hall of the former Vaughan's Mansion, which is also part of the complex.
Local climate
The Music Hall 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 92% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
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