26 and 26a, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1973. Commercial building. 10 related planning applications.

26 and 26a, High Street

WRENN ID
guardian-cinder-lichen
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 October 1973
Type
Commercial building
Address
26 and 26a, High Street, Shaftesbury, SP7 8JG
OS grid reference
ST 862 229
Coordinates
51.00593, -2.19713
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This building, at 26 and 26A High Street, has a 19th-century front but incorporates an earlier core. It is a three-storey building with a four-window front, typical of its time. It features rusticated quoins, a central pilaster, and window surrounds. A decorative band runs across the first floor at the level of the voussoir, and there are plain sill bands to the second-floor windows. The ground floor has modern plate glass shop fronts with marble stall-risers. A pair of 19th-century wooden boarded doors are set within the reveal at the right-hand end. Nos. 12 to 26 (even) and No 26A form a group with “The Butt of Sherry” Wine Bar and the former premises of The Midland Bank, The Commons.

Local climate

26 and 26a, High Street 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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  • Sale history — 4 transactions since 2009
  • Related listed building consents — 10 applications
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  • 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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