Ashton Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 January 1985. House. 1 related planning application.
Ashton Cottage
- WRENN ID
- brooding-rubble-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 January 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Ashton Cottage, 27, Welsh Street, Bishop's Castle, SY9 5BS
- OS grid reference
- SO 321 890
- Coordinates
- 52.49527, -3.0003
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ashton Cottage is a row of nine houses, originally probably dating from the 17th century, but heavily remodelled around 1865. They were adapted to serve as railway workers' cottages. The construction is timber frame, rendered externally, with a slate roof. A break in the eaves is visible between numbers 35 and 37, and the dormers are topped with fish-scale slates. The houses are one storey and attic in height, with nine gabled dormers featuring decorated barge boards, finials, and wooden two-light casement windows. Four ridge stacks and a semi-integral end stack are present. The front elevation has nine window bays, featuring wooden two-light casements alternating with four pairs of windows and one boarded door. The doors have pilastered surrounds, friezes, and cornices. Local tradition suggests the cottages were remodelled from earlier buildings to provide accommodation for workers on The Bishop's Castle Railway, which opened in 1865.
Local climate
Ashton Cottage receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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 — 2 transactions since 2019
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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