Mrs Bee's Card and Toy Shop Taj Mahal Restaurant Trinity is a Grade II listed building in the Newark and Sherwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1973. Shop, restaurant.

Mrs Bee's Card and Toy Shop Taj Mahal Restaurant Trinity

WRENN ID
scarred-pier-bracken
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Newark and Sherwood
Constituency
Newark MP: Robert Jenrick (RUK)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 February 1973
Type
Shop, restaurant
Address
Mrs Bee's Card and Toy Shop Taj Mahal Restaurant Trinity, 15 and 15a, King Street, Southwell
OS grid reference
SK 701 540
Coordinates
53.07864, -0.95456
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Mrs. Bee's Card and Toy Shop and the Taj Mahal Restaurant, located at Nos. 15 and 15A on King Street in Southwell, is a house and attached stable range that has been converted into shops and a restaurant. It dates from the mid-18th century but has undergone alterations in the late 19th century and mid-20th century. The building is constructed of brick with a stucco south gable and features both slate and pantile roofs.

The front facade displays first and second floor bands, brick modillion eaves, coped gables, and two gable stacks. It is three storeys high and has a three-window range. The front includes three glazing bar sash windows with rubbed brick heads, and above them are three similar windows. To the left, there are two late 19th-century wooden shopfronts with corniced fascias supported by brackets, with the right shopfront being reglazed in the late 20th century. To the right of the shopfronts, there is an elliptical arched carriage opening.

At the rear, there are two wings that are two and three storeys high, both featuring coped gables and a gable stack. The south side of the building has a single glazing bar sash window on each floor, with the larger lower windows having segmental heads. The former stable range, which is two storeys high, has coped gables and a colourwashed ground floor. It includes two 20th-century casement windows, a 20th-century door with a segmental head to the right, and a 20th-century shop window to the left.

Local climate

Mrs Bee's Card and Toy Shop Taj Mahal Restaurant Trinity sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% 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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