Shop Premises Occupied by Dowling and Bay is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1951. Shop premises.
Shop Premises Occupied by Dowling and Bay
- WRENN ID
- peeling-portal-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1951
- Type
- Shop premises
- Address
- Shop Premises Occupied by Dowling and Bay, Fore Street, Looe
- OS grid reference
- SX 255 533
- Coordinates
- 50.35393, -4.45411
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building known as the shop premises occupied by Dowling and Bay, also referred to as 1666 House, is located on Fore Street in East Looe. This structure is believed to have originally been a merchant's house, with a later addition of a shop. The building features an inscription dating back to 1666. It has a rendered timber-frame construction with 20th-century mock timber-frame panels and a fairly steep asbestos slate roof. The layout is double-depth with a rear wing on the left side, and it stands three storeys tall with a regular two-window range.
On the second floor, there are rare 18th-century 18-pane horizontal-sliding sash windows with thick glazing bars. The first floor features taller early 19th-century 16-pane hornless sash windows. The ground floor includes a recessed 20th-century bowed shop front with small panes. Inside, the ground floor has 18th-century bowtell-moulded axial beams, although the rest of the interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Shop Premises Occupied by Dowling and Bay sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% 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 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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