20-24, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1973. Commercial, Shop. 8 related planning applications.
20-24, High Street
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-cupola-yew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 October 1973
- Type
- Commercial, Shop
- Address
- 20-24, High Street, Shaftesbury
- OS grid reference
- ST 862 229
- Coordinates
- 51.00587, -2.19729
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a row of commercial buildings dating from the early to mid-19th century, continuing a line of properties on the north side of High Street. Number 20 has a rounded corner where the street turns. The roofs are slate and also rounded. Number 20 is three storeys high with an attic containing one dormer window. Numbers 22 and 24 are three storeys high, with one bay each for number 20 and two bays each for numbers 22 and 24. The fronts are cement rendered and divided by rusticated pilasters. A cornice runs along the eaves. The windows are sash windows, and the original glazing bars are intact. The ground floor of number 20 features a shop front and a doorway dating from the same period; a stuccoed plinth is also present, along with a foot scraper. Numbers 22 and 24 have modern shop fronts and fascias. Numbers 12 to 26 (even) and number 26A are grouped together with “The Butt of Sherry” wine bar and the former premises of The Midland Bank, The Commons.
Local climate
20-24, High Street 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 10 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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