The Beauty Shop is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 October 1963. Shop, house.
The Beauty Shop
- WRENN ID
- north-niche-oak
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dover
- Constituency
- Herne Bay and Sandwich MP: Sir Roger Gale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 October 1963
- Type
- Shop, house
- Address
- The Beauty Shop, the Street, Ash
- OS grid reference
- TR 285 584
- Coordinates
- 51.27908, 1.27639
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Beauty Shop is a shop and house dating from the 18th century. It is constructed of red brick and features a plain tiled roof. The building has two storeys set on a plinth, topped with a parapet above the hipped roof. On the ground floor, there is a three-light plate glass shop window to the left, which has a cornice, and a plate glass shop front to the right. The first floor includes a horizontal sliding glazing bar sash window to the left and two glazing bar sash windows, all of which have cambered heads. The central entrance consists of a half-glazed door, also with a cambered head.
Local climate
The Beauty Shop sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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