National Trust Shop is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 November 1959. Shop. 4 related planning applications.
National Trust Shop
- WRENN ID
- bitter-plaster-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 November 1959
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- National Trust Shop, the Square, Corfe Castle, BH20 5EZ
- OS grid reference
- SY 960 820
- Coordinates
- 50.63846, -2.05774
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an early 17th-century shop, located on the west side of The Square in Corfe Castle. It was originally one house and is attached to Hollands' Shop. A date stone on the front wall indicates the year 1616. The building is constructed of rubble stone with a stone slate roof, and features a stone stack at the right end.
The shop has one storey and an attic. The front includes a ledged door set under a 4-centred timber arch, covered by a flat timber-moulded canopy supported on shaped brackets. A small bow shop window with leaded lights and a moulded cornice is positioned to the right of the door, alongside a further casement window with leaded lights. The attic is lit by a gabled dormer window featuring casements similar to those below.
Inside, the shop retains a fireplace with a stone 4-centred arch, and nearby is a circular recess, which may have been the site of a spiral stair. Some exposed ceiling beams are also present. Currently managed by the National Trust, the building is recorded in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, Dorset, Volume II.
Local climate
National Trust Shop receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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 — 1 transaction since 2022
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- 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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