Alcove Cafe is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 January 1974. Cafe. 7 related planning applications.
Alcove Cafe
- WRENN ID
- nether-groin-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 January 1974
- Type
- Cafe
- Address
- Alcove Cafe, 1, Marine Parade, Lyme Regis, DT7 3JE
- OS grid reference
- SY 341 920
- Coordinates
- 50.72429, -2.93382
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Alcove Café is an early 19th century building with later additions, originally appearing as a two-story, three-window-bay cottage in old photographs. The current facade features a sash window on the first floor of the first bay. The second bay has a splayed bay window on the first floor above a plain sash window on the ground floor. A doorway is topped by a coved and peaked canopy, sheltering a half-glazed door. The third bay has a square bay window extending over both floors. A third floor has been added with modern window openings. To the right, two additional bays feature sash windows without glazing bars on the first floor, and a three-light modern casement window on the second floor. A later addition on the left-hand end has a sash window on the first floor, a door and a sash window on the ground floor, and a splayed bay window on the second floor.
Local climate
Alcove Cafe receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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 — 8 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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