8, St James's Close is a Grade II listed building in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1954. House. 1 related planning application.
8, St James's Close
- WRENN ID
- final-chamber-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Constituency
- Poole MP: Neil Duncan-Jordan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1954
- Type
- House
- Address
- 8, St James's Close, BH15 1JL
- OS grid reference
- SZ 008 904
- Coordinates
- 50.71374, -1.98996
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 8 St James's Close, formerly known as No. 8 West Street, is a house dating from around 1760. It is constructed of brick with a painted brick plinth, stucco dressings, a brick ridge stack, and a pantile roof. The building has a double-depth plan and stands two storeys high with an attic, featuring a three-window range. It has a plinth and a moulded brick eaves cornice.
There are steps leading up to a right-hand round-arched doorway, which is flanked by pilasters and topped with an open pediment. The doorway includes a radial fanlight and a six-panel door with panelled reveals. The windows are adorned with gauged brick arches over six-over-six pane sashes. To the left, there is a hipped dormer with three-over-three pane sashes and a fanlight to the right. The rear south wing has hipped dormers.
The interior retains several original features, including a panelled winder stair with column newels, a plank and muntin partition in the roof, and a well-preserved 18th-century roof. Additionally, there are marble fireplaces with corner roundels and decorative cornices.
Local climate
8, St James's Close receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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