Gullivers' Bookshop Tweedale and Riley is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 February 1983. Shop. 1 related planning application.
Gullivers' Bookshop Tweedale and Riley
- WRENN ID
- inner-mantel-cobweb
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- Mid Dorset and North Poole MP: Vikki Slade (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 February 1983
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- Gullivers' Bookshop Tweedale and Riley, 55, High Street, Wimborne Minster, BH21 1HS
- OS grid reference
- SZ 010 999
- Coordinates
- 50.7992, -1.98717
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gullivers' Bookshop and Tweedale and Riley is a building likely dating from the early 19th century, originally constructed as a single structure. It features brick walls that are rendered up to the first floor level and colourwashed above. The building has a low pitched slate roof and a rendered stack. It stands two storeys tall, with a central doorway that has a modern door and an ornamental fanlight. The shop fronts are modern and include glazing bars. On the first floor, there are three double hung sash windows, also with glazing bars.
Local climate
Gullivers' Bookshop Tweedale and Riley 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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