Abbey Store and Hidden Cottage (Ruth Liversage) is a Grade II listed building in the New Forest National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1975. A 18th century House, shop.

Abbey Store and Hidden Cottage (Ruth Liversage)

WRENN ID
hallowed-wicket-plum
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
New Forest National Park
Constituency
New Forest East MP: Sir Julian Lewis (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
1 December 1975
Type
House, shop
Address
Abbey Store and Hidden Cottage (Ruth Liversage), High Street, Beaulieu
OS grid reference
SU 387 021
Coordinates
50.81798, -1.45164
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Abbey Store and Hidden Cottage, formerly known as The Post Office Abbey Stores and Hidden Cottage, is a house that has been converted into two shops with accommodation. It dates from the mid-18th century and has been altered in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building is constructed of brick with some blue headers and features an old plain tile roof.

It stands two storeys high with an attic and has six bays. On the left side, there is an early 19th-century double shop front consisting of three-light windows with a central half-glazed door. Another door is located on the right under a rectangular fanlight within a reeded doorcase. This section is topped with a frieze that includes a fascia and a moulded cornice. In the center, there are two flush-framed sash windows, and to the right, there is a 20th-century shop front designed in an old style.

On the first floor, there are five irregular 12-pane sash windows with flush frames, along with one blind opening. The building features a moulded eaves cornice and three two-light hip-roofed dormers. The steep-pitched roof has an external stack at the right end and ridge stacks.

Local climate

Abbey Store and Hidden Cottage (Ruth Liversage) receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 10 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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