Merchant House is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 April 1954. House.
Merchant House
- WRENN ID
- scattered-balcony-khaki
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 April 1954
- Type
- House
- Address
- Merchant House, 62 and 63, Corve Street, Ludlow
- OS grid reference
- SO 510 752
- Coordinates
- 52.37304, -2.71991
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Merchant House is a 17th-century building located on Corve Street in Ludlow. Originally constructed as two houses, it now functions as a single residence. The structure features a timber-frame design with render and plaster, topped by a plain tile roof and a brick stack at the rear.
The house stands three stories high and has a three-window range. The ground floor includes a doorway on the left, featuring a plank door set in a plain case, flanked by curved chamfered jetty-brackets that continue as pilasters. There are two bay windows with 20th-century casements, and the timber post with a curved bracket is located to the right. The original bressummer is noteworthy, as it has floor joists that are tenoned into it.
The central section of the house has been significantly altered but still showcases moulded dragon beams. The rear of the building has a wing with exposed timber-framing on the sides and a roughcast jettied gable supported by curved brackets. The roof is also covered with plain tiles and features a brick ridge stack.
Local climate
Merchant House receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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