The Old Hall is a Grade II* listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1952. Vicarage, house. 2 related planning applications.
The Old Hall
- WRENN ID
- young-pier-grain
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- Shrewsbury MP: Julia Buckley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1952
- Type
- Vicarage, house
- Address
- The Old Hall, Withington, SY4 4PY
- OS grid reference
- SJ 576 130
- Coordinates
- 52.71325, -2.62776
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Hall is a former vicarage, now a house, dating from around 1700. It is constructed of red brick and features a hipped plain tile roof. The building has a U-shaped plan, with the rear infilled likely in the early to mid-18th century. It stands two storeys tall with an attic. The exterior includes painted rendered chamfered quoins, a painted rendered plat band, and a moulded wooden dentil eaves cornice. There are three flat-topped dormers with moulded wooden-framed two-light casements, and a brick ridge stack on each wing at the rear.
The façade consists of six bays with glazing bar sashes that have shaped gauged heads, moulded cills, and narrow rectangular panels beneath the first-floor windows. The central door, dating from around 1700, features ten raised and fielded panels with L-hinges on the inside, surrounded by a moulded architrave. The porch, likely from the mid-to-late 18th century, has unfluted Doric columns and pilasters supporting a frieze and cornice.
On the left-hand return front, there are five bays with central narrow glazing bar sashes on each floor, some bays have blind windows, and others are blank. A late 19th or early 20th-century hipped-roofed canted bay is located to the right. The rear wings have stone-coped parapeted gables.
Inside, the entrance hall features flagged flooring, and there is a dog-leg staircase from around 1700 that rises to the attic, complete with a closed string, turned balusters, panelled square newel posts, and a moulded handrail. The windows and doors have reeded architraves, and there are panelled shutters on the windows. A bolection moulded fireplace surround from around 1700 is present, along with a late 18th or early 19th-century cast iron grate on the first floor. The ground floor front room to the left has a marble fireplace surround from around 1830-1840. The Old Hall is listed as Grade II* for its unaltered state and high-quality detailing, representing an early 18th-century house.
Local climate
The Old Hall receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 65% 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 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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