2, The Square is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1974. Residential.
2, The Square
- WRENN ID
- hushed-rampart-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1974
- Type
- Residential
- Address
- 2, The Square, Church Stretton
- OS grid reference
- SO 452 937
- Coordinates
- 52.53869, -2.80802
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
2 The Square is a house dating from the 18th century, with alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. It features painted roughcast render and a plain-tile roof. The house has a 19th-century integral brick eaves stack on the right and a large central brick stack with four diagonal upper shafts. The rectangular plan has a gable end facing the street.
The exterior consists of two storeys and an attic, with an irregular two-window arrangement of 6/6 sash windows on the street front, and a 3/3 sash window at the attic level. There is a moulded wood doorcase with a fanlight that has radial glazing bars, and a five-panelled moulded door. To the left, there is a projecting flat-roofed multi-pane canted bay window and a round arched doorway. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
2, The Square receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2017
- No related consent applications matched
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