121-124 Abbey Foregate and garden walls is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1953. A 19th century House. 2 related planning applications.
121-124 Abbey Foregate and garden walls
- WRENN ID
- stony-cloister-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- Shrewsbury MP: Julia Buckley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1953
- Type
- House
- Address
- 121-124 Abbey Foregate and garden walls, Shrewsbury, SY2 6AZ
- OS grid reference
- SJ 504 122
- Coordinates
- 52.70528, -2.73418
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a terrace of four houses, built around 1820. The houses are faced with ashlar stone and have a roof of Welsh slate. The central section has six windows, two storeys and an attic, while the flanking sections are two storeys high with four windows each. The design is symmetrical, with doorways set slightly off-centre in the flanking blocks, and doorways in the outer section of the central range. The doorways have six-panelled doors with traceried overlights, set within simple moulded surrounds. The windows are mostly twelve-pane sashes, with longer fifteen-pane sashes in the first-floor windows of the outer flanking blocks. The window and door surrounds have flat-arched heads carved into the ashlar, and rectangular stuccoed surrounds on some upper windows. A single wooden blind canopy covers one upper window on the right-hand side. There is a moulded stone cornice and parapet, with the attic of the central section rising above this, featuring six-pane sash windows. Chimneys are located towards the rear of the buildings.
A garden wall runs along the front of the terrace, defining the plot and providing pathways to each house. The wall itself has an ashlar stone plinth and pierced balustrades, with small domed caps on the corner piers. Low stone walls and double-curved block links provide access to each property. Number 122 was separately listed on May 30, 1969.
Local climate
121-124 Abbey Foregate and garden walls 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 1998
- 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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