The Old Watch House the Shell Shop the Shell Shop (The Old Watch House) is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 January 1974. Shop. 9 related planning applications.
The Old Watch House the Shell Shop the Shell Shop (The Old Watch House)
- WRENN ID
- stranded-gallery-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 January 1974
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- The Old Watch House the Shell Shop the Shell Shop (The Old Watch House), Marine Parade, Lyme Regis, DT7 3JF
- OS grid reference
- SY 337 916
- Coordinates
- 50.721, -2.93936
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Shell Shop, formerly known as The Old Watch House, is a building dating from the 19th century. It is located on Marine Parade.
The building is two storeys high with two window bays. It features a peaked slate roof above the left-hand bay, with a parapet extending over the right-hand bay. The front is stuccoed. The left-hand bay has a wide sash window on the first floor and a modern shop front on the ground floor. The right-hand bay has a sash window without glazing bars above, and below it, a ledged door with a glazed panel in the lower part. The south-west return has two widely spaced first-floor windows.
The building is listed at Grade II for group value, forming part of a group with numbers 14 to 20 (consec), Cobb House flats, The Old Bonded Store flats and shops, and the Customs House on Cobb Road. The Customs House partly closes the southward view from Marine Parade.
Local climate
The Old Watch House the Shell Shop the Shell Shop (The Old Watch House) receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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 2019
- Related listed building consents — 9 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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