Policeman's Corner is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1974. Toll house.
Policeman's Corner
- WRENN ID
- tired-bailey-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1974
- Type
- Toll house
- Address
- Policeman's Corner, Richard's Castle (Shropshire)
- OS grid reference
- SO 509 725
- Coordinates
- 52.349, -2.72155
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Policeman's Corner is an early 19th-century toll house that has been converted into a house. It is built from stone rubble and features hipped and gabled slate roofs. The building has an octagonal plan with a gabled wing at the rear and a brick ridge stack in that wing.
The exterior consists of two storeys, with the entrance located on the west side in the rear wing. This entrance has a single multi-pane casement window with a stone sill above a pentice roof covering a single-storey lobby outshut, next to a diagonally-boarded door set within a 20th-century porch surround. On the right-hand gable-end return, there is another multi-pane casement window. The verge has plain bargeboards.
The octagonal section of the building features two-light multi-pane casements on opposing faces, with an inset toll-charge tablet located on the third side. There are three two-light multi-pane casements, one at the ground floor under the toll-charge tablet and the others on opposing diagonal faces. Each of these windows has a projecting painted stone hood on brackets and stone sills. One window retains its vertically boarded shutters.
Policeman's Corner is noted for being a remarkably unaltered example of a 19th-century toll house.
Local climate
Policeman's Corner 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 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% 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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