Numbers 1-4, The Armoury is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. House, cottages. 1 related planning application.
Numbers 1-4, The Armoury
- WRENN ID
- empty-garret-river
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- Shrewsbury MP: Julia Buckley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House, cottages
- Address
- Numbers 1-4, The Armoury, Wenlock Road, Shrewsbury, SY2 6PA
- OS grid reference
- SJ 508 116
- Coordinates
- 52.70056, -2.72908
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Numbers 1-4, The Armoury, are a house and three cottages dating from approximately 1806, built as officer’s houses and workshops for the Shrewsbury Armoury. The building is constructed of brick with Welsh slate roofs. The main house is two storeys high and has a three-window front with a central entrance. The front door is a six-panelled door within a moulded architrave, featuring a triglyph frieze. It is flanked by eight-pane sash windows with wide, splayed heads; the central upper window is blind and is flanked by four-pane sashes. A continuous sill band runs along the first floor. The building has a hipped roof and plain stuccoed eaves. The cottages, originally workshops or stables, have been extensively altered. They are lower in height and each has two storeys and a single-window range, with doorways inserted into wide original openings that have segmentally-arched heads. The armoury was designed by James Wyatt.
Local climate
Numbers 1-4, The Armoury receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2014
- 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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