The General Stores is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1987. House, shop.
The General Stores
- WRENN ID
- crooked-quartz-weasel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dover
- Constituency
- Dover and Deal MP: Mike Tapp (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 November 1987
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- The General Stores, High Street, Eastry
- OS grid reference
- TR 309 547
- Coordinates
- 51.24531, 1.30767
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The General Stores is a house and shop from the 18th century that was extended in the mid-19th century. It features channelled render and a plain tiled roof. The building has two storeys and a basement set on a plinth, topped with a hipped roof and a stack at the rear. On the first floor, there are three sash windows. The central entrance has a recessed half-glazed door, flanked by projecting plate glass windows. To the right, there is a blocked doorway with a rectangular fanlight and a bow window containing 20 panes. The basement has openings as well. The mid-19th century extension on the left has two storeys and a parapet with a hipped roof. It includes two wooden casement windows on the first floor and two plate glass windows on the ground floor, along with a tented corrugated iron verandah supported by brackets and featuring valancing.
Local climate
The General Stores receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% 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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