Severn Hill is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. House. 1 related planning application.
Severn Hill
- WRENN ID
- sunken-cellar-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- Shrewsbury MP: Julia Buckley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Severn Hill, Porthill Road, Shrewsbury
- OS grid reference
- SJ 483 124
- Coordinates
- 52.70745, -2.76656
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Severn Hill is a house that has been converted into a school house. It was built around 1800 and extended around 1925. The building is made of brick and has a Welsh slate roof. It stands three stories tall and features a three-window range, highlighted by full-height brick pilasters. The central entrance is framed by a Tuscan portico, with a panelled door and a delicately traceried fanlight above. Each floor has tall 12-pane sash windows, while the attic storey has 6-pane windows. The roof has a coved cornice and overhangs, with axial stacks on the rear wall.
To the left, there is an original low two-storey pavilion wing, and an additional two-window range wing was added around 1925. This newer wing includes an inner doorway with paired traceried doors and a fanlight set within a round-arched architrave. It also has 12-pane sash windows on each floor and a parapet with balustrading above. The long return of the building forms the main range of the boarding house.
Local climate
Severn Hill 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 sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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