Plas Wilmot (''Welsh'': Wilmot Hall) is a substantial suburban villa near
Oswestry
Oswestry ( ; ) is a market town, civil parish and historic railway town in Shropshire, England, close to the Welsh border. It is at the junction of the A5, A483 and A495 roads.
The town was the administrative headquarters of the Borough of ...
in the United Kingdom. The house was originally constructed c.1829 of red brick with slate roof, with additions in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It was the birthplace of First World War poet
Wilfred Owen
Wilfred Edward Salter Owen MC (18 March 1893 – 4 November 1918) was an English poet and soldier. He was one of the leading poets of the First World War. His war poetry on the horrors of trenches and gas warfare was much influenced by ...
on 18 March 1893. It became a Grade II
listed building
In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Irel ...
in 2012, following a campaign by Oswestry Civic Society and other local groups. The grounds were put on sale in 2013 after the local authority granted planning permission for houses to be built on the land.
["Wilfred Owen Oswestry garden is put on market", ''Shropshire Star'', 13 August 2013. Accessed 18 August 2015]
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Grade II listed buildings in Shropshire