Clun buildings [2]

Image: © Michael Dibb Taken: 2 Jun 2021

The Sun Inn occupies numbers 10 and 12 High Street. Number 10, nearest the camera, was built as a house in the 17th century and remodelled as a house and shop in the mid or late 19th century. Timber framed but mostly rebuilt in coursed limestone, now rendered, under a slate roof. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1175802 Number 12 was originally a 15th century outbuilding, probably converted to a house in the 17th century and remodelled in the mid or late 19th century Timber framed and encased or rebuilt in coursed limestone, now rendered, under a slate roof. The roof has three full cruck trusses. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1054453 The small town of Clun is astride the River Clun in the Shropshire Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. It is located some 14 miles northwest of Ludlow and some 5½ miles north of Knighton. There is evidence of settlement in the Neolithic period but the town grew around the site of an Anglo-Saxon church. The Normans built a castle and a new town was laid out, the grid plan of which survives in this tranquil valley.

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