The Merchants House is a Grade II listed building in the Wyre Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 October 1975. House. 1 related planning application.
The Merchants House
- WRENN ID
- worn-railing-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wyre Forest
- Constituency
- Wyre Forest MP: Mark Garnier (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 October 1975
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Merchants House, 80, Load Street, Bewdley, DY12 2AW
- OS grid reference
- SO 786 754
- Coordinates
- 52.37639, -2.31449
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Merchants House is a house that has been converted into a restaurant. It is constructed of brick and features a hipped tile roof. The building has three storeys and twelve windows, which include glazing bar sashes with plastered wedge lintels. On the second floor, there are nine-pane sashes, while the ground floor has a tiled pentice roof over two 16-pane sashes. The central recessed entrance is accessed by three brick steps and has a glazed door.
On the return front facing Severn Side North, the building also has three storeys and three windows with glazing bar sashes and plastered wedge lintels. The second floor again features nine-pane sashes, and the ground floor has three glazing bar sashes under plastered wedge lintels. To the right of these windows, there is a slightly recessed entrance approached by three brick steps, which has a semi-circular head, a wooden architrave, and a 20th-century panelled door.
Local climate
The Merchants House receives an average of 780 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 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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