Adams House is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 August 1951. Residential. 1 related planning application.
Adams House
- WRENN ID
- leaning-attic-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- North Shropshire MP: Helen Morgan (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 August 1951
- Type
- Residential
- Address
- Adams House, 100, High Street, Wem Urban, SY4 5DS
- OS grid reference
- SJ 509 288
- Coordinates
- 52.85521, -2.7294
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Adams House is a late 18th century red brick house located on the north side of High Street, originally known as Trentham House. It features a low-pitched hipped Welsh slate roof and a moulded eaves cornice. The building is square in plan, standing three storeys tall with three bays. The windows are sashes without glazing bars set in segmental-headed openings, while the ground floor has round-arched windows with keystones and a central blocked doorway flanked by panelled pilasters, moulded console brackets, and a pediment. On the right-hand (south-east) side, there are three storeys and three bays, with the ground floor featuring two Victorian canted bays and a central blocked doorway. This house was formerly the headmaster's residence for the grammar school established in 1650.
Local climate
Adams House 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 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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- 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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