Town Beam is a Grade II listed building in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 May 1974. Structure. 11 related planning applications.

Town Beam

WRENN ID
burning-lime-winter
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
Constituency
Poole MP: Neil Duncan-Jordan (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 May 1974
Type
Structure
Address
Town Beam, The Quay, BH15 1HJ
OS grid reference
SZ 008 902
Coordinates
50.71225, -1.98918
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Town Beam is a historic structure likely built before 1822, located in front of the early 19th century Custom House and south of the Town Cellars, which was a wool house from the late 13th or early 14th century and is now part of Poole Museum. This cruciform timber structure features a square-section shaft topped with a domed cap made of brass or copper sheeting. It has horizontal arms with diagonal braces on either side, which support a wrought-iron tie or beam with eye-bolt terminals. This beam would have originally held a steelyard balance for weighing objects. Although the woodwork has been renewed, the original fittings are believed to still be in place. The Town Beam underwent significant restoration in 1947 and again in 2019.

Local climate

Town Beam 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
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2019
  • Related listed building consents — 11 applications
  • 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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