Shelter Shop is a Grade II listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 12 September 2001. Shop.
Shelter Shop
- WRENN ID
- shifting-copper-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Denbighshire
- Constituency
- Clwyd East MP: Becky Gittins (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 12 September 2001
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- Shelter Shop, 174 High Street, Prestatyn
- OS grid reference
- SJ 067 827
- Coordinates
- 53.33308, -3.40233
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Shelter Shop, located at 170 and 174 High Street in Prestatyn, consists of two shops that share similar shopfronts in the center of a terrace of four. The buildings are constructed of brick with stone dressings and feature a shallow pitched slate roof that is concealed by a high parapet. The design of the shopfronts is intended to maximize external display visibility. Each shopfront includes a central island display case, with an additional display case on each side. These side cases are set back and angled to meet the door at the rear of the island case, allowing shoppers to enter from either side. The display cases are supported by a masonry plinth approximately 500 mm high. The side cases feature a thin moulded transom at a high level with glazing above, while the island case has a flat roof. The main glazing below the transom level consists of straight and curved panes of plate glass, separated by decorative thin uprights. Above the transom, there is leaded obscured glazing with art nouveau features. A deep fascia for the shop name is inclined forward above the boxing. The shopfronts also have small colored floor tiles arranged in patterns. On the first floor, there is an oriel window to the left and a tripartite window to the right, both with transoms and flanked by brick pilasters.
Local climate
Shelter Shop sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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