Boar's Head Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 May 1986. Inn. 7 related planning applications.
Boar's Head Inn
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-chapel-khaki
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- North Shropshire MP: Helen Morgan (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 May 1986
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- Boar's Head Inn, Willow Street, Oswestry
- OS grid reference
- SJ 289 296
- Coordinates
- 52.8594, -3.05645
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Boar's Head Inn is a mid-19th century building that was re-fronted and heightened from an earlier structure, with later additions and alterations. It features a rendered timber frame and brick construction, topped with a slate roof that has a red brick ridge stack on the left and an internal end stack on the right. The original house likely consisted of three aligned bays at the front, with a long range extending at right angles to the rear. The front was re-faced in the 18th century and remodelled in the mid-19th century.
The inn stands three storeys tall and has a corbelled eaves cornice. The second floor includes three four-paned sash windows set in moulded surrounds, with a moulded cill band that actually serves as the eaves cornice of the 18th-century house, flanked by stone kneelers. The first floor on the right features a twin double-paned sash window in a moulded surround, while the inn front to the right showcases Gothic leaf carvings in the spandrels of the windows and double four-panel doors topped with a wide rectangular overlight. There is a wide, high passageway to the left, complete with spur stones.
At the rear on the right, there is a long, low two-storey range, rendered over timber frame and also covered with a slate roof. This section includes a small gable on the left featuring a Venetian window with late 19th-century stained glass, a tall red brick ridge stack near the centre, and a large tapering external stack on the left. The interior has not been inspected but is expected to be of interest.
Local climate
Boar's Head Inn receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 7 applications
- 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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