Ampersand with Flanking Walls is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1973. House.

Ampersand with Flanking Walls

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 October 1973
Type
House
Address
Ampersand with Flanking Walls, Little Content Lame, Shaftesbury
OS grid reference
ST 866 232
Coordinates
51.00877, -2.19151
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Ampersand with flanking walls is an early 19th-century building located on Little Content Lane. It features two storeys and an attic, with three windows across its façade. The building has a slate roof with a pentice at the back and a stuccoed front that includes quoins. There are two segmental-headed dormers and flanking chimneys. The windows are set in reveals, with intact glazing bars above and missing ones below. The entrance consists of a panelled door, although the upper panels have been altered. A flat trellis porch is present, and there is a single-storey stucco wall with a false round-headed window that extends a short distance on either side of the house.

Local climate

Ampersand with Flanking Walls receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% 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 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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