Shrewsbury Sixth Form College, The Priory is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1953. House. 5 related planning applications.
Shrewsbury Sixth Form College, The Priory
- WRENN ID
- roaming-ledge-wagtail
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- Shrewsbury MP: Julia Buckley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1953
- Type
- House
- Address
- Shrewsbury Sixth Form College, The Priory, St Austin's Friars, SY1 1RX
- OS grid reference
- SJ 487 126
- Coordinates
- 52.70908, -2.76
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Shrewsbury Sixth Form College, known as The Priory, is a house dating from around 1800 that has been converted into a school, with various later modifications. The building is constructed of brick and features a low-pitched hipped roof covered with Welsh slate. It has two storeys and a six-window range.
The north elevation displays a three-window range on the right, which includes tripartite sash windows set in high segmental arches, flanking a twelve-pane sash window with a flat-arched gauged brick head. Above, there are twelve-pane sash windows. To the left, there is a large canted full-height bay with twelve-pane sash windows featuring flat-arched gauged brick heads and a string course below the upper windows. This section may represent the original part of the building. Adjacent to this is a slightly projecting squared bay with tripartite sash windows on each floor and a stone string course above the lower window, likely a later addition. The left-hand bay has a tripartite sash window with a plain wood lintel on the ground floor and a twelve-pane sash window above. To the right, there is a lower two-storeyed single-window range block, which may have served as the original service end.
Local climate
Shrewsbury Sixth Form College, The Priory 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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