The Council House is a Grade II listed building in the Stratford-on-Avon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1984. Public building, offices. 1 related planning application.
The Council House
- WRENN ID
- outer-truss-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stratford-on-Avon
- Constituency
- Stratford-on-Avon MP: Manuela Perteghella (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1984
- Type
- Public building, offices
- Address
- The Council House, 2, New Street, Shipston on Stour, CV36 4GA
- OS grid reference
- SP 258 405
- Coordinates
- 52.0625, -1.62439
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Council House is a public building, now used as offices, dating from the late 19th century. It is constructed of squared, coursed lias with quoins, featuring an ashlar bay on the right. The building has a storey band and a coped parapet, topped with a slate mansard roof. It stands two storeys plus an attic and has a four-window range with a rectangular plan.
In the ashlar bay to the right, there is a 19th-century plank door with a fanlight set in a round-headed arch. This is framed by a stone pilaster surround with a shallow flat hood. The four openings on the ground and first floors contain 12-pane sash windows with quoined surrounds. Behind the parapet, there are three round-headed dormers.
The right gable end features a round-headed sash window flanked by blind round-headed openings, with four stone Doric pilasters positioned between and on either side of the windows. Above, there is a large tripartite sash window on the first floor, adorned with a scroll surround and a moulded entablature. A round-headed dormer above this window has a moulded stone surround and a ball finial. The rubble bay to the right includes a plank door with a tall overlight and a quoined surround, with a 12-pane sash window above it. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
The Council House receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 68% 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 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1998
- 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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