Cerne Abbas Stores is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1956. Shop.
Cerne Abbas Stores
- WRENN ID
- scarred-slate-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1956
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- Cerne Abbas Stores, 9, Long Street
- OS grid reference
- ST 664 011
- Coordinates
- 50.80896, -2.47689
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cerne Abbas Stores is an attached shop premises located on Long Street in Cerne Abbas. The building features a 19th-century refronting, although it likely has an earlier core. The walls are rendered and painted, and it has slate roofs with a brick stack on the left-hand party wall. The structure is two storeys high and includes dormers.
The shop front consists of two large fixed windows with glazing bars, each having 32 panes arranged in an 8 by 4 configuration, along with three panes angled towards the shop door. Recessed wooden pilasters support a moulded wooden cornice above. The central entrance features a two-leaf glazed door from the 19th century. On the first floor, there are three sashes with glazing bars, each having 12 panes and stone cills, arranged in an irregular pattern. The building also includes two dormers with 2-light casements that have glazing bars and hipped slate roofs.
Local climate
Cerne Abbas Stores receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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