36 and 38, Cheap Street is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 November 1950. A Late Medieval Commercial.
36 and 38, Cheap Street
- WRENN ID
- fading-garret-tide
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 November 1950
- Type
- Commercial
- Address
- 36 and 38, Cheap Street, Sherborne
- OS grid reference
- ST 638 167
- Coordinates
- 50.94883, -2.51649
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
36 and 38 Cheap Street is a late medieval timber-framed building with a later timber-framed wing at the rear. It has two storeys, with the upper storey overhanging and featuring a plaster finish on the timber framing. The ground floor is supported by four moulded posts with curved braces, and there is a moulded stone corbel at the left end. The roof is modern and covered with tiles. The upper floor has later casement windows and updated eaves. The ground floor, made of painted stone, includes two shop windows, one of which is a splayed bay, and a central six-fielded panelled door in a frame. This building is part of a group that includes Nos 2 to 30 (even) and Nos 34 to 50 (even).
Local climate
36 and 38, Cheap Street receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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