20, Bell Street is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1973. Cottage.
20, Bell Street
- WRENN ID
- iron-flue-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 October 1973
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 20, Bell Street, Shaftesbury
- OS grid reference
- ST 863 230
- Coordinates
- 51.00696, -2.1962
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 20 Bell Street is a 17th-century cottage located on the north side of Bell Street. It features two storeys and an attic, with a single bay. The front is plastered, and it has three-light casement windows. The roof is covered with a deep thatch and includes a dormer window. This building is part of a group that includes Nos 14 to 26 (even).
Local climate
20, Bell Street 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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