Bishop's Caundle House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 May 1984. House. 1 related planning application.
Bishop's Caundle House
- WRENN ID
- weathered-mullion-thistle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 May 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Bishop's Caundle House, Caundle Street, DT9 5ND
- OS grid reference
- ST 696 131
- Coordinates
- 50.9169, -2.43298
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bishop's Caundle House is a house dating from around 1800, consisting of two parts: a main block and a rear service wing. The main block features a symmetrical facade with stuccoed walls, a hipped slate roof, and brick stacks at the rear eaves, along with a rendered stack at the left end. It has an ashlar plat band, a cornice, and rusticated quoins. The house is three storeys high with five bays, and the windows are sashes with glazing bars. The main entrance includes a six-panel door and a segmentally headed glazed porch located in the side wall. The rear range also has stuccoed walls and a hipped slate roof with brick stacks along the ridge. It consists of two parallel ranges connected by a central spine corridor, is two storeys tall, and has four bays with sashes featuring glazing bars.
Local climate
Bishop's Caundle House receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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 — 2 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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