The Flower Bowl Tea Rooms is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1956. Tearooms. 1 related planning application.

The Flower Bowl Tea Rooms

WRENN ID
long-slate-gold
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 January 1956
Type
Tearooms
Address
The Flower Bowl Tea Rooms, 3, Market Street, Abbotsbury, DT3 4JR
OS grid reference
SY 576 853
Coordinates
50.66592, -2.59997
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Flower Bowl Tea Rooms is an attached house that has been converted into tea rooms. It dates from the late 18th century or early 19th century. The building features coursed, squared rubble-stone walls and a slate roof with brick gable-coping and projecting eaves. There are no chimney stacks. The structure has two storeys and attics, with four windows that are three-light wooden casements, complete with glazing-bars and wooden cills, and dressed stone voussoirs.

On the ground floor, there is a low plank door with ventilation holes at the top, which is a 20th-century addition. There is also a three-light wooden casement with glazing-bars, also from the 20th century, and a plank door with one glass light, again a 20th-century feature. These openings are set beneath a long flat arch of voussoirs, which was formerly a wide entrance. To the right, there is a shop front with wooden pilasters, a plain frieze, and a moulded cornice. This includes two fixed windows with glazing-bars and a central door, which is a plank door with four glass lights in the upper half. At the centre of the roof, there is a gabled dormer window featuring a two-light wooden casement with glazing-bars.

Local climate

The Flower Bowl Tea Rooms receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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