Severn Wharf Building (Premises of Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust) is a Grade II* listed building in the Telford and Wrekin local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 March 1968. Warehouse. 11 related planning applications.
Severn Wharf Building (Premises of Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust)
- WRENN ID
- tall-belfry-burdock
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Telford and Wrekin
- Constituency
- Telford MP: Shaun Davies (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 March 1968
- Type
- Warehouse
- Address
- Severn Wharf Building (Premises of Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust), the Wharfage, the Gorge, TF8 7NH
- OS grid reference
- SJ 667 036
- Coordinates
- 52.62949, -2.4922
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Severn Wharf Building, which houses the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust, is a mid to late 19th-century structure that originally served as a wharf building and warehouse for the Coalbrookdale Company. It features red brick with yellow brick dressings in a Gothick style, characterized by its castellated design, including pinnacles and buttresses. The building has moulded stringcourses and pointed arch window openings with dripmoulds, as well as diamond-paned casements.
On the southeast front, there is a single-storey range with large four-centred arch doorways on either side, and a central polygonal 'apse' that has lancet windows and two flanking castellated turrets. Each turret is topped with a round ornamental terracotta chimney pot. The sides of the building have four gables, each adorned with pointed arch windows. The roof is covered with plain tiles. Originally, there was a basin for barges located adjacent to the wharf building.
Local climate
Severn Wharf Building (Premises of Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust) receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 11 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings