The Armoury is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1994. Former barracks, bakery, public house. 4 related planning applications.
The Armoury
- WRENN ID
- idle-groin-thistle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- Shrewsbury MP: Julia Buckley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1994
- Type
- Former barracks, bakery, public house
- Address
- The Armoury, Victoria Quary, Victoria Avenue, Shrewsbury, SY1 1HH
- OS grid reference
- SJ 488 126
- Coordinates
- 52.70952, -2.75895
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Armoury is a former barracks that was originally built in 1806 by James Wyatt for the Shrewsbury Armoury. It was later rebuilt as a bakery in 1922 and renovated in 1995 to become a public house. The building is constructed of brick on a stone plinth and features a Welsh slate roof.
It stands two storeys tall and has ten bays, which are defined by full-height pilasters, with the outer bays being slightly advanced. The lower windows have round-arched fine gauged brick heads, while the upper windows have flat-arched brick heads. The lower windows in the outer bays feature flat-arched heads that are stepped to resemble voussoirs. The stone sills of the upper windows are set from a string course that is interrupted by the pilasters. The building has overhanging eaves, and the plain cornice extends across the gables, forming a pediment.
To the right, there is a narrow two-window infill range that connects to a two-storey house or office block. This section has two twelve-pane sash windows on each floor, although the lower windows are now blocked and feature flat-arched gauged brick heads. It also has a stone plinth and a continuous stone sill band for the first-floor windows, along with plain overhanging eaves on a hipped roof that has an end wall stack.
Local climate
The Armoury 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 92% 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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- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
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- Radon risk assessment
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