5, Lower Bar is a Grade II listed building in the Telford and Wrekin local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 June 1978. Shop.
5, Lower Bar
- WRENN ID
- long-paling-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Telford and Wrekin
- Constituency
- The Wrekin MP: Mark Pritchard (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 June 1978
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- 5, Lower Bar, Newport
- OS grid reference
- SJ 743 193
- Coordinates
- 52.77074, -2.38162
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 5 Lower Bar is an early 19th-century building located on the west side of Lower Bar. It is constructed of painted brick and has two storeys. The front features three sash windows with plain lintels, corbelled brick eaves, and is topped with old tiles. There is a late 19th-century shop front that includes an original bow shop window, which has a cornice topped by a grocer's sign shaped like a large metal tea canister from the 19th century. At the rear, there is a two-storey red brick wing that contains one three-light casement window and two sash windows without glazing bars below.
Local climate
5, Lower Bar 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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