29a and 30, Princess Street is a Grade II* listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1953. Shop, dwelling. 3 related planning applications.
29a and 30, Princess Street
- WRENN ID
- pale-baluster-alder
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- Shrewsbury MP: Julia Buckley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1953
- Type
- Shop, dwelling
- Address
- 29a and 30, Princess Street, Shrewsbury, SY1 1LW
- OS grid reference
- SJ 491 124
- Coordinates
- 52.70704, -2.75418
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
29A and 30 Princess Street are a pair of shops that were originally built as dwellings around 1720. The buildings are constructed of brick with stuccoed dressings and feature a plain tiled roof. They stand three storeys tall and have four bays, each with 18-pane sash windows set in moulded stuccoed architraves that have segmental heads and stressed keystones.
To the left, there is a narrow shop front, followed by a wide early 20th-century shop front that includes a central door and foliate consoles supporting the fascia. The buildings are adorned with stuccoed string courses and angle quoins. They have an overhanging moulded eaves cornice beneath a high parapet, which is topped with gabled dormers. The roof has axial and gable end stacks at the rear.
Inside, original staircases remain, with the staircase in No.29A extending to the full height of the building. These staircases feature turned balusters, moulded tread ends, and dado panelling. The upper rooms contain early 18th-century wall-panelling and fireplaces that have bolection-moulded surrounds.
Local climate
29a and 30, Princess 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 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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