Priory Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 February 1974. Cottage.
Priory Cottage
- WRENN ID
- strange-tower-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 February 1974
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Priory Cottage, Bull Ring, Much Wenlock
- OS grid reference
- SJ 623 000
- Coordinates
- 52.597, -2.55689
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Priory Cottage is a building dating from the early 19th century, with parts of an earlier timber frame visible inside. It is constructed of stone rubble with ashlar quoins at all corners and stands two storeys high. The cottage features advanced gabled wings on each side, each with a six-light wood mullioned transomed window. There is one window in a small central gable, along with a plain wood doorcase. The building is adorned with ornamental barge-boards, sprocket eaves, and has an old tiled roof. Priory Cottage, along with School House and The Priory, forms a cohesive group of buildings.
Local climate
Priory Cottage receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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