156, Wallisdown Road is a Grade II listed building in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 August 1972. Cottage.
156, Wallisdown Road
- WRENN ID
- former-tower-wax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Constituency
- Bournemouth West MP: Jessica Toale (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 August 1972
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- SZ 070 939
- Coordinates
- 50.745, -1.90135
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 156 on Wallisdown Road is a picturesque cottage built around 1850. It features a ground floor and a semi-attic, constructed from buff brick with a slate roof. The building has an L-shaped plan, with a gable end facing the road and a steeply pitched roof adorned with pierced and traceried bargeboards. There is a porch next to the cottage, also gabled towards the road and featuring pierced bargeboards. The windows are mullioned casements with diamond lattice glazing. The gable ends include canted bays with hipped roofs on the ground floor and 2-light windows on the first floor. Additionally, there are two chimney breasts that rise through the eaves, topped with bowed rectangular stacks. This cottage is part of a group of listed buildings along Wallisdown Road and Columbia Road.
Local climate
156, Wallisdown Road receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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