School Shop is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. School, museum.
School Shop
- WRENN ID
- odd-ember-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Buckingham and Bletchley MP: Callum Anderson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- School, museum
- Address
- School Shop, Stowe
- OS grid reference
- SP 673 373
- Coordinates
- 52.03029, -1.01918
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The school shop at Stowe School, originally known as Her Ladyship's Menagerie and later the Duke's Museum, was built in 1781, likely by Vincenzo Valdre. This neo-classical building features a central block with three bays topped by a dome, showcasing an Ionic pilaster order. The central doorway is arched and flanked by niches, while the parapet is adorned with four urns. The building also includes quadrant wings with Ionic columns and pedimented end pavilions.
Local climate
School Shop sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% 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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