Sheen and the Bakery is a Grade II listed building in the Forest of Dean local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 January 1985. Dwelling, shop.
Sheen and the Bakery
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-rafter-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Forest of Dean
- Constituency
- Forest of Dean MP: Matt Bishop (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 January 1985
- Type
- Dwelling, shop
- Address
- Sheen and the Bakery, High Street, Newnham
- OS grid reference
- SO 690 116
- Coordinates
- 51.80224, -2.45073
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sheen and The Bakery is a dwelling and shop dating from the mid-19th century. It features a stepped painted plinth and a rendered exterior with horizontal V-joints at the ground floor. There is a string course at the upper cill level, along with stone moulded architraves and a cornice. The roof is made of Welsh slate. The building has two back wings and a wide through-way leading from the street on the right side.
It stands two storeys high and has four windows. The shop front is from the 19th century and includes slender colonnettes, a fascia, and a cornice above a hexagonal bay, along with good contemporary lettering. The entrance has a new glazed door with a plain glazed transom light. There is also a four-panel door, two of which are now glazed, situated under a stone hood supported by scroll brackets and flat pilaster sides. The ground floor has a sash window without bars in a moulded eared architrave, and the upper level features three sash windows with bars and one three-light sash window without bars, which has square mullions.
Local climate
Sheen and the Bakery receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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