Premises Occupied by Shaftsbury Museum is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1973. Building. 1 related planning application.

Premises Occupied by Shaftsbury Museum

WRENN ID
north-foundation-river
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 October 1973
Type
Building
Address
Premises Occupied by Shaftsbury Museum, Gold Hill, Shaftesbury, SP7 8JW
OS grid reference
ST 862 229
Coordinates
51.00558, -2.19674
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The premises occupied by Shaftesbury Museum is an 18th-century building located behind Sun and Moon Cottage on Gold Hill. It has two storeys and features two windows on the southeast side and one on the southwest side. The roof is hipped and covered with red plain tiles, while the front is made of stone rubble. On the southeast side, there are segmental-headed two-light casements with brick voussoirs in the left bay, and modern windows in the right bay. At the rear, there is a wing that is contemporary with the front and extends up to the Church. The southwest entrance front has one window above and a wooden-boarded door below.

Local climate

Premises Occupied by Shaftsbury Museum 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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