The Bantam Shop is a Grade II listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 November 1975. Shop.
The Bantam Shop
- WRENN ID
- strange-latch-wagtail
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Exmoor National Park
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 November 1975
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- The Bantam Shop, 18, High Street, Dunster, Somerset
- OS grid reference
- SS 991 437
- Coordinates
- 51.18398, -3.44393
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bantam Shop is a mid-19th century building located on the east side of Dunster High Street. It features a rendered exterior and a slate roof with eaves. The building is two storeys high and has three wood casement windows. The shop front is modern, with an entrance that includes a tiled pentice hood supported by brackets and a ribbed door on the right-hand side.
Local climate
The Bantam Shop sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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