Windsor House is a Grade II* listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1953. A C18 House.
Windsor House
- WRENN ID
- narrow-render-torch
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- Shrewsbury MP: Julia Buckley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1953
- Type
- House
- Address
- Windsor House, Windsor Place, Shrewsbury
- OS grid reference
- SJ 493 126
- Coordinates
- 52.70908, -2.75112
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Windsor House is a late 18th-century building that currently serves as offices. It is constructed of brick and features Welsh slate and plain tiled roofs. The main section of the house is three storeys high and has five windows, with a central door framed by an Ionic case that includes fluted pilasters. The windows are flush-framed 12-pane sash types, topped with flat-arched gauged brick heads that have stressed brick keys. The building has a parapet with a narrow stone cornice and curved coped gable walls. To the left, there is a separate and later addition that has a long front wall with a single 12-pane sash window on each floor and a curved gable end featuring 12-pane sashes with flat-arched stuccoed heads.
Inside, the house retains an almost complete late 18th-century interior. It features a central staircase with alternately turned and twisted balusters, a swept moulded rail, carved tread ends, and dado panelling. The principal rooms are all fully panelled, with one lower room showcasing Corinthian pilasters and ornate panelling over doors, along with marble fireplaces in the upper rooms. The upper right-hand room is also panelled with Corinthian pilasters and has a heavy cornice, which is enriched with marquetry and is said to be made of wych-elm.
Local climate
Windsor House 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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