King Alfred's Kitchen is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1973. A C17 Commercial building.
King Alfred's Kitchen
- WRENN ID
- lone-brick-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 October 1973
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- King Alfred's Kitchen, 17 and 19, High Street, Shaftesbury
- OS grid reference
- ST 862 229
- Coordinates
- 51.00572, -2.19761
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
King Alfred's Kitchen, located at 17 and 19 High Street, dates back to 1615 and is a Grade II listed building. The front is plastered, and the south end features a very low room with oak beams, indicating a 17th-century origin. The building has two storeys, with one window above and four windows below, which includes a canted bay and an 18th-century sash window to the left of it. The north end has a third storey, but most of its external features are quite modern. King Alfred's Kitchen is part of a group that includes Nos 5 to 13 (odd) and The Fruit Shop.
Local climate
King Alfred's Kitchen receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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