The Arcade is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 March 1983. Shop.
The Arcade
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-bonework-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 March 1983
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- The Arcade, 36, High Street, Swanage
- OS grid reference
- SZ 030 787
- Coordinates
- 50.60845, -1.95774
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Arcade is a single-storey shop building dated 1896, located on the north side of High Street. It features Purbeck Stone walls and a slate roof that is hidden behind a parapet. The building has a projecting arcade facing High Street, supported by three arches carried on Tuscan columns, with carved heads in the spandrels. The east elevation is adorned with a pediment that rises from the parapet and is complemented by console brackets. Below this is a "Tudor" style entrance door. The Arcade was likely designed as a prominent feature at the junction of High Street and Kings Road East.
Local climate
The Arcade receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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