The Ships Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 February 1976. Hotel. 1 related planning application.

The Ships Hotel

WRENN ID
south-wall-wren
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
Constituency
Christchurch MP: Sir Christopher Chope (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 February 1976
Type
Hotel
Address
The Ships Hotel, 48, High Street, BH23 1BN
OS grid reference
SZ 158 927
Coordinates
50.7344, -1.77685
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Ship Hotel is an early 19th-century building with a facade that covers an older structure. It features painted brick and a slated roof, standing two storeys tall with three windows, including a blank space in the centre on the first floor. The windows are sashes with glazing bars. The ground floor has a later, advanced facade with a central door flanked by windows. At the rear, there are 17th or early 18th-century gables on the cross wings. The Ship Hotel is part of a group of buildings of local interest that includes the Town Hall and several nearby properties.

Local climate

The Ships Hotel 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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