131 Abbey Foregate is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1953. Office. 1 related planning application.
131 Abbey Foregate
- WRENN ID
- shifting-stronghold-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- Shrewsbury MP: Julia Buckley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1953
- Type
- Office
- Address
- 131 Abbey Foregate, Shrewsbury, SY2 6LY
- OS grid reference
- SJ 504 121
- Coordinates
- 52.70505, -2.73453
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
131 Abbey Foregate is an early 19th-century house, now used as an office. The building is constructed of painted brick and render, with a Welsh slate roof. It is a low, two-storey building with a two-unit plan. The front features a central doorway set within a thin architrave, flanked by two-light casement windows with small panes of glass. Similar windows are found in the upper storey, below the eaves. Gable and rear wall stacks are present.
Local climate
131 Abbey Foregate receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2020
- 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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