The Fruit Shop is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1973. A C18 Shop. 1 related planning application.
The Fruit Shop
- WRENN ID
- grey-bonework-dew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 October 1973
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- The Fruit Shop, High Street, Shaftesbury, SP7 8HZ
- OS grid reference
- ST 862 229
- Coordinates
- 51.00577, -2.19766
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Fruit Shop is a corner house dating to an 18th-century core, and situated adjoining King Alfred's kitchen as part of the same building block. The front of the building, facing High Street, is three storeys high with one window and rendered in a white finish, topped with a parapet. A section of the wall facing Church Lane is built of stone rubble and forms part of No. 2 Church Lane. The ground floor features a small shop front on the left and a single four-pane sash window on the right. The shop window and door are flanked by panelled pilasters, surmounted by a fascia and a moulded cornice. The High Street front includes a bowed shop window, with only the fascia now bowed. The building, along with numbers 5 to 13 (odd), 17 and 19, forms a group.
Local climate
The Fruit Shop 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 — 3 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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