70 High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 June 1983. House.
70 High Street
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-gallery-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- North Shropshire MP: Helen Morgan (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 June 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- 70 High Street, Wem Urban
- OS grid reference
- SJ 511 288
- Coordinates
- 52.85533, -2.72683
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 70 High Street is an early 19th-century house featuring a red brick front and a timber-frame structure with a roughcast end wall. The building has a plain tile roof with gabled ends and stands two storeys tall, comprising three bays. The windows are sashes with glazing bars and plain lintels. The central doorcase is adorned with moulded pilasters and a broken pediment, and it includes a semi-circular fanlight with radial glazing bars above a glazed door.
Local climate
70 High Street 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 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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