Nos. 15 and 15a, St John's Square is a Grade II listed building in the Stoke-on-Trent local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1972. Shop. 3 related planning applications.
Nos. 15 and 15a, St John's Square
- WRENN ID
- final-rubble-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Constituency
- Stoke-on-Trent North MP: David Williams (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 April 1972
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- Nos. 15 and 15a, St John's Square, City of Stoke-On-Trent, ST6 3AW
- OS grid reference
- SJ 867 497
- Coordinates
- 53.04441, -2.19859
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 15 and 15A on St John's Square are shop premises dating from the early 19th century. The building is constructed of painted brick and features slate roofs that are hipped around the corner. It has two storeys and two bays facing St John's Square, with a return onto William Clowes Street. The shop fronts are from the 20th century, while above them are four-pane sash windows with flat-arched stuccoed heads. A part of the moulded eaves cornice remains. This location was used by the author Arnold Bennett as "John Bain's Shop" in his novel "The Old Wives' Tale."
Local climate
Nos. 15 and 15a, St John's Square receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2011
- 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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