A W and E W Frowd Avocado Coffee House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1952. Coffee house. 2 related planning applications.
A W and E W Frowd Avocado Coffee House
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- Mid Dorset and North Poole MP: Vikki Slade (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1952
- Type
- Coffee house
- Address
- A W and E W Frowd Avocado Coffee House, 27, West Borough, Wimborne Minster, BH21 1LT
- OS grid reference
- SU 008 002
- Coordinates
- 50.80158, -1.98877
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A W and E W Frowd, also known as Avocado Coffee House, is a late 18th to early 19th century building located on the west side of West Borough. It features brick walls and a simple moulded eaves cornice, topped by a modern tiled roof and brick stacks. The ground floor has a central doorway with a simple moulded surround that leads to a through passage, flanked by two modern shop windows. On the first floor, there are three double hung sash windows with raised plastered surrounds and central glazing bars. To the north of the main building is a lower block that includes an opening on the ground floor leading to another through passage, and one double hung sash window on the first floor with a segmental head.
Local climate
A W and E W Frowd Avocado Coffee House receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- 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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