Front Block and Rear Range is a Grade II listed building in the Telford and Wrekin local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 June 1978. House, shop. 1 related planning application.
Front Block and Rear Range
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-grate-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Telford and Wrekin
- Constituency
- The Wrekin MP: Mark Pritchard (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 June 1978
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- Front Block and Rear Range, 75, High Street, Newport
- OS grid reference
- SJ 745 191
- Coordinates
- 52.7691, -2.37921
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
House, now a house and shop, dating to the early 16th century, with extensions from the 17th century and a front block rebuilt in the early to mid-19th century. The building is timber-framed with wattle and daub and brick infill, with the rearmost range partially clad in red and painted brick. The front block is of red brick. It has a low-pitched slate roof with an axial brick stack behind the ridge, while the rear ranges have tiled roofs and a stack on the rearmost block. Two gabled dormers face west on the front of the building, and on the rear.
The front block is three storeys high and has a two-window front, with the window bays placed irregularly. It features glazing bar sash windows, shallower on the second floor; that on the first floor to the right has a gauged head. A shallow canted bay on the first floor to the left is likely from the later 19th century. A later 19th-century shop front occupies the ground floor, consisting of a double shop front with a central two-thirds-glazed door, and a boarded door to the right leading through to a yard at the rear.
The rear block, on the east side, comprises two parts; the right-hand part probably dates to the early 16th century, and the left-hand part to the 17th century. It is two storeys high and features a rare survival of 10-light and 6-light windows on the first floor, and a 6-light window to the right on the ground floor, though their exact sequence is difficult to discern due to blocked lights and small sash windows inserted into the frame. A significant number of diamond mullions survive; the studs and posts of the frame are cut into diamond sections to resemble mullions where windows pass through them. The interior has not been inspected.
The front block of the building, dated to the early to mid-19th century, is red brick and three storeys high, featuring one sash window with a flat brick arch and a splayed oriel on the left-hand side, with plain wood eaves and slate roofing. A 19th-century shop front is present with modern glazing. The building is included on the list for its group value.
Local climate
Front Block and Rear Range receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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 — 1 transaction since 2024
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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