Knowles Arms Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1973. Public house.

Knowles Arms Public House

WRENN ID
salt-landing-ivy
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 October 1973
Type
Public house
Address
Knowles Arms Public House, 64, Salisbury Street, Shaftesbury
OS grid reference
ST 866 228
Coordinates
51.00469, -2.19146
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Knowles Arms Public House, located at 64 Salisbury Street, is an early 19th-century building. It is two storeys high and has three bays, with a blocked central opening. The roof is a peaked slate hipped design, featuring flanking stacks and overhanging eaves. The front is made of ashlar stone with a plinth. The windows are four panes wide set in reveals, and each has a keystone. There is a round-headed doorway with a blocked tympanum and a plain wooden door. The building is part of a group that includes Nos 60 to 64.

Local climate

Knowles Arms Public House 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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