Attic Discoveries and Garden Bookshop is a Grade II listed building in the Newark and Sherwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 August 1961. House, shop, workshop. 4 related planning applications.

Attic Discoveries and Garden Bookshop

WRENN ID
ruined-joist-blackthorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Newark and Sherwood
Constituency
Newark MP: Robert Jenrick (RUK)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 August 1961
Type
House, shop, workshop
Address
Attic Discoveries and Garden Bookshop, 64, Church Street, Southwell, NG25 0HG
OS grid reference
SK 705 537
Coordinates
53.07605, -0.94858
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: sale history · related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

Attic Discoveries and Garden Bookshop is a house, shop, and attached workshop dating from around 1770, with early and mid-19th century additions. It was altered around 1960. The building is constructed of brick, with the front colourwashed, and features stone dressings and pantile roofs. It has stone and rendered plinths, cogged eaves, and two gable and a single ridge stack. The front and workshop windows have segmental heads and the structure has three storeys plus garrets, with a three-window range.

The front features plain sash windows, with smaller glazing bar sashes above. There is a central segment-headed six-panel door with an overlight, flanked by plain columns and a cornice. To the right is an early 19th century wooden shopfront with a glazed two-leaf door and a shop window with glazing bars. To the left, there is a single plain sash window. The left gable has a blocked window to the garret. A mid-19th century two-storey rear addition is present. The attached workshop, which was partly demolished around 1960, has a gabled and hipped pantile roof and is two storeys high with a six-window range. The outer windows are small-paned casements, and to the left, there is a cart opening and a door flanked by single 20th century casements. To the right, there is a glazing bar sash flanked by single doors, all with segmental heads. Inside the house, there is a late 18th century winder stair, altered in the 19th century, featuring stick balusters and octagonal newels.

Local climate

Attic Discoveries and Garden Bookshop sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 93% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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
  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 2002
  • Related listed building consents — 4 applications
  • 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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