Spar Grocers is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 May 1984. Shop. 1 related planning application.
Spar Grocers
- WRENN ID
- broken-tin-river
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 May 1984
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- Spar Grocers, Sand Street, Milverton
- OS grid reference
- ST 120 258
- Coordinates
- 51.02486, -3.25553
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Spar Grocers is a house with an inserted double shopfront, dating from the early 19th century, with a late 19th-century shopfront. It is constructed of red sandstone random rubble and features a 20th-century slate roof with brick stacks. The building is two stories tall and has three bays. The first floor has sash windows with marginal glazing bars, set under painted lintels with keystones. The ground floor contains two late 19th-century shop windows, flanked by fluted pilasters and a central pedimented doorcase. The doorcase includes a frieze of triglyphs and a 20th-century glazed door.
Local climate
Spar Grocers receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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 — 3 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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