Canford Crafts and Williams and Farmer is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 February 1983. A Early C19 Commercial.
Canford Crafts and Williams and Farmer
- WRENN ID
- guardian-threshold-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- Mid Dorset and North Poole MP: Vikki Slade (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 February 1983
- Type
- Commercial
- Address
- Canford Crafts and Williams and Farmer, 8, Cook Row, Wimborne Minster, BH21 1LB
- OS grid reference
- SZ 009 999
- Coordinates
- 50.7995, -1.98791
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Canford Crafts and Williams and Farmer is an early 19th-century building located at the corner of Cook Row and High Street. It features brick walls and a slate roof with wide bracketed eaves. The building stands three storeys tall, with the facade divided into bays by slightly projecting brick pilasters.
On the ground floor facing Cook Row, there is a modern shop window at the corner and a flush door set in a round-headed opening, which is topped with an ornamental fanlight. Additionally, there is one double-hung sash window. The first and second floors each have two double-hung sash windows with glazing bars.
The elevation facing High Street has modern shop fronts on the ground floor, which include a continuous fascia and capping mould. The first and second floors each feature three double-hung sash windows with glazing bars, and there is a projecting keystone above the centre window on the first floor. The building also includes Nos. 16 and 18 High Street.
Local climate
Canford Crafts and Williams and Farmer receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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