3 The Square is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1953. Shop. 3 related planning applications.

3 The Square

WRENN ID
over-terrace-sable
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Shropshire
Constituency
Shrewsbury MP: Julia Buckley (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 January 1953
Type
Shop
Address
3 The Square, Shrewsbury, SY1 1LA
OS grid reference
SJ 491 124
Coordinates
52.70775, -2.7545
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

3 The Square is a shop that may have been purpose-built in the early 19th century. It features lined-out stucco over brick and has a Welsh slate roof. The building stands three storeys tall with an attic and has a four-window range. The shop front, added in the late 20th century, is designed in a traditional style. The first floor has mullioned and transomed windows with shouldered architraves. There is a string course with an interlace frieze, and the second floor windows have plain stressed architraves along with a string course. A cornice is located below the attic storey, which is adorned with moulded pilasters at the corners and on either side of the two-light casement windows, supporting a heavy projecting modillion eaves cornice. The building has gable end stacks.

Local climate

3 The Square receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% 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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