55, St Michael's Street is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1995. House. 1 related planning application.

55, St Michael's Street

WRENN ID
strange-gravel-sage
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Shropshire
Constituency
Shrewsbury MP: Julia Buckley (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 November 1995
Type
House
Address
55, St Michael's Street, Shrewsbury, SY1 2HA
OS grid reference
SJ 497 135
Coordinates
52.7177, -2.74571
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This building, located at 55 St Michael's Street in Shrewsbury, is a house that was formerly the clerk's house for Benyon and Bage's flax mill. It dates from around 1800 and was designed by architect and builder John Simpson. The house is constructed of brick and features a hipped Welsh slate roof. It has two storeys with a basement at the rear and a three-window range. The central entrance consists of a four-panelled door with an overlight, flanked by 12-pane sash windows that have flat-arched brick heads. The upper storey contains nine-pane sash windows. The house has side wall and axial stacks. It is built of "great bricks," which connect it closely to the flax mill complex, where these bricks were used in all construction prior to 1805.

Local climate

55, St Michael's Street 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 1996
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