53, Load Street is a Grade II listed building in the Wyre Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 March 1970. Shop. 1 related planning application.
53, Load Street
- WRENN ID
- lesser-quartz-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wyre Forest
- Constituency
- Wyre Forest MP: Mark Garnier (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 March 1970
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- 53, Load Street, Bewdley, DY12 2AP
- OS grid reference
- SO 785 753
- Coordinates
- 52.37558, -2.31648
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 53 on Load Street is part of a house that has been converted into a shop. It dates from the late 18th century, with some alterations made in the mid-19th century and mid-20th century. The building is constructed of brick and features a hipped tile roof with a stack at the ridge. It stands three storeys tall and has a stone-coped parapet. The front has three windows: two glazing bar sashes are on either side of a blind window, all set beneath flat arches with stepped stone voussoirs. The second floor mirrors the first floor's window arrangement. The ground floor has a 20th-century shop front that includes a plain sign board and a 2-pane plate glass shop window, with a recessed entrance to the left corner that has a glazed door. It is worth noting that No. 54 was originally part of the same building.
Local climate
53, Load Street 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
- 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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