No. 78, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 March 1970. House. 2 related planning applications.

No. 78, High Street

WRENN ID
pitched-copper-willow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Shropshire
Constituency
South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 March 1970
Type
House
Address
No. 78, High Street, Bridgnorth, WV16 4DX
OS grid reference
SO 716 932
Coordinates
52.53654, -2.42004
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 78 High Street is a building from the 16th to 17th century, featuring a painted imitation timber frame on a stuccoed brick plinth. The earlier timber frame is exposed in the overhang on the returned side, which includes two early 19th-century sash windows. The building is two storeys high and has two casement windows, along with two 19th-century gabled dormers. There is a recessed early 19th-century panelled door and plain eaves, with a tiled roof. No. 78 High Street, along with Nos. 1 to 3 (consecutive), forms a group.

Local climate

No. 78, High Street receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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