The Mount Hotel and adjoining screen wall is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 May 1951. Hotel.
The Mount Hotel and adjoining screen wall
- WRENN ID
- calm-buttress-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- North Shropshire MP: Helen Morgan (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 May 1951
- Type
- Hotel
- OS grid reference
- SJ 538 418
- Coordinates
- 52.97226, -2.68838
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Mount Hotel, originally a house, dates from the early 19th century, with later additions from the late 19th century at the rear. It is constructed of red brick with some sandstone ashlar dressings and features a two-span slate roof. The building has two storeys and a gable-lit attic.
The façade includes a pair of segmental bows, each with a plinth, a raised eaves band, and dentil bricks that form a moulded wooden cornice topped with a stone blocking course. The central bay has a raised parapet with a stone frieze and a triangular pediment. The gable ends are parapeted, featuring stone copings and shaped stone kneelers, with integral brick end stacks. The building is divided into three bays, with boxed glazing bar sashes that have painted stone cills and lintels. The central first-floor sash has been replaced by a 20th-century casement. The central entrance features a 20th-century half-glazed door flanked by side-lights, topped by a segmental radial fanlight with fluted-fan spandrels and a plain architrave, frieze, and cornice. A flat-roofed porch with a moulded cornice and cast-iron supports, which have an intersecting circular motif and quatrefoils at the corners, leads to the door, approached by a flight of six stone steps, with the lower three steps having curved corners. The gable ends also feature early 19th-century fluted semi-circular rainwater heads.
To the right, there is a two-storey service block set back, which has lean-to and hipped roofs, a dentil brick eaves cornice, and a brick lateral stack. The first floor contains two glazing bar sashes, while the ground floor is obscured by an adjoining brick screen wall that has a grey sandstone ashlar impost band and moulded coping. There is a door to the left with six flush panels and a recessed semi-circular tympanum.
The interior has not been fully inspected, but the entrance corridor features raised and fielded dado panelling and a depressed archway at the rear with fluted pilasters.
Local climate
The Mount Hotel and adjoining screen wall 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 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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