2 and 3, School Gardens is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1953. Offices. 2 related planning applications.
2 and 3, School Gardens
- WRENN ID
- noble-span-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- Shrewsbury MP: Julia Buckley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1953
- Type
- Offices
- Address
- 2 and 3, School Gardens, Shrewsbury, SY1 2AJ
- OS grid reference
- SJ 493 127
- Coordinates
- 52.7101, -2.75108
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
These offices, originally school masters’ houses for Shrewsbury School, date to 1825, though they may incorporate an earlier structure. The building is constructed of brick with a plain tiled roof and is in a Neo-Tudor style. It is two storeys high with attics, featuring a six-window range organized as a series of gables and a narrow central section, with the outer bays projecting forward. There are two principal doorways with four-centred arches and hood moulds, and a narrower doorway to the right. The windows are mullioned, with two round-arched lights and hood moulds on both floors. The narrow central bay contains a single lancet window and a dormer, displaying the initials SB, representing Samuel Butler, headmaster of the school between 1798 and 1836. Axial star-shaped stacks are present. A full-height square bay window with a half-hipped roof and paired sash windows on the side elevation was added in the late 19th century.
Local climate
2 and 3, School Gardens 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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- Sale history — 13 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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