5, Load Street is a Grade II listed building in the Wyre Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 April 1950. House, shop, offices. 1 related planning application.
5, Load Street
- WRENN ID
- far-entrance-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wyre Forest
- Constituency
- Wyre Forest MP: Mark Garnier (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 April 1950
- Type
- House, shop, offices
- Address
- 5, Load Street, Bewdley, DY12 2AF
- OS grid reference
- SO 786 753
- Coordinates
- 52.37591, -2.31453
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 5 Load Street is a house that has been converted into a shop and offices. It likely dates from the early 18th century and was refronted in the early 19th century, with some alterations made in the mid-20th century. The building is constructed of rendered brick and features a tile roof with a rear stack.
It stands three storeys tall and has a stone-coped parapet with a plain band serving as a cornice. The main part of the front is recessed and has a semi-circular head on the second floor. There are two windows on this floor: a 16-pane sash window in the recess to the left and an 8-pane sash window to the right. On the second floor, there is a 12-pane sash window to the left and a 6-pane sash window to the right. The ground floor features a shop front to the left, set in a recess, with a sign board across the top. The central entrance is flanked by multi-pane 20th-century shop windows and has a glazed door. To the right-hand corner, there is an entrance to a passage that has a moulded wooden architrave and a door made of three raised and fielded panels.
Local climate
5, 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 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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