Fives Court to North West of Bowling Green House is a Grade II* listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 November 1954. Fives court.
Fives Court to North West of Bowling Green House
- WRENN ID
- tall-vault-onyx
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 November 1954
- Type
- Fives court
- Address
- Fives Court to North West of Bowling Green House, Ludford
- OS grid reference
- SO 504 742
- Coordinates
- 52.36433, -2.72851
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fives Court, located to the northwest of Bowling Green House in Bromfield, is a structure that dates back to the 17th or 18th century. It was formerly known as the Ludlow Arms Inn and includes a fives or racquets court. The building features a brick facade over a rubble wall, with the rear rendered. There are rubble wing walls and rear buttresses, topped with stone coping that includes urn finials, although one of these finials has fallen. The court itself remains largely intact, with banks on the south and east sides.
Local climate
Fives Court to North West of Bowling Green House receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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