6 Milk Street, Shrewsbury

Occupying the ground floor only of 6 Milk Street, this attractive retail unit forms part of a Grade II Listed building. The property benefits from an impressive double frontage with a recessed entrance, providing good visibility on a sought-after retail pitch.

Internally, the accommodation offers a retail sales area together with staff facilities and a W/C, with plastered and painted walls and original timber floorboards. The property also includes a basement which lends well to use as storage.

Location
Located on Milk Street opposite Princess Street, the premises is visible from the High Street and is a short walk from the Shrewsbury’s historic Town Square. The unit benefits from street parking along Princess Street as well as multiple surface level car parks at the bottom of Wyle Cop.

Neighbouring occupiers include Plantkind (falafel café), CSons (restaurant), Rizzo’s Hairdressing, Peaberry’s (café and restaurant), Hopefully Made (café and screenprinting workshop), The Garden Room, Umai (Japanese restaurant) and The Golden Cross Hotel and Restaurant.

On Saturdays, Wyle Cop and the High Street are pedestrianised, drawing additional footfall.

Shrewsbury is the county town of Shropshire being located approximately 48 miles North-West of Birmingham, 43 miles South of Chester, and 17 miles West of Telford.

The town benefits from excellent transport links with arterial roads leading from the A5 (T) to the M54 motorway and on towards the M6 and the rest of the country’s national motorway network. The Town is also located off the A49 Hereford to Cheshire trunk road and at the beginning of the A458 to mid-Wales.

There are also direct rail services to London Euston (approximately 2 hours 41 minutes) and also to Birmingham, Manchester and Cardiff.

Shrewsbury has a resident urban population of approximately 80,000 people with a County-wide population in excess of 325,000.


Shrewsbury and Retail:
In 2025, Shrewsbury was named number one in the Telegraph’s list of UK’s best high streets for the second year in a row. Shrewsbury Market Hall has also been voted ‘Britain’s Favourite Market’ for an unprecedented third year running and a record 4th time at the 2025 Great British Market awards. The town is also home to Wyle Cop which is reputedly the longest uninterrupted run of independent traders in the Country.

Given such accolades, it is hardly surprising that Shrewsbury’s High Street attracted record footfall numbers in December 2025 with more than £135million spent by visitors to it’s town centre shops and businesses, outperforming GB benchmarks.

In the wider context Shropshire’s visitor economy as a whole surpassed £1 billion for the first time in 2025, a 10.1% increase from 2024, supported by its 10,660,000 million visitors.

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