55, 55a and 55b, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 August 1974. Commercial building. 2 related planning applications.
55, 55a and 55b, High Street
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-terrace-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Constituency
- Christchurch MP: Sir Christopher Chope (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 August 1974
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- 55, 55a and 55b, High Street, BH23 1AS
- OS grid reference
- SZ 158 927
- Coordinates
- 50.73404, -1.77682
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an early to mid-19th century building on High Street, part of a wider group of properties of local interest. The building, comprising numbers 55, 55A and 55B, has a stucco facade finished with a cornice and wide eaves supported by brackets. The roof is now pantiled. A moulded string course runs along the building, connecting the sills of the first-floor windows. The building is two storeys high with three windows on its main facade. A further window is recessed on the south-eastern side, located above a carriage arch that leads to the rear. This arch is decorated with keystones and impost bands. The shop front, though altered, retains pilasters, consoles at the ends, and a vertical arrangement of cast iron glazing bars featuring decorated spandrels. A side door provides access to the shop.
Local climate
55, 55a and 55b, High Street receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2020
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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