Beech House and Attached Front Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 December 1984. House. 4 related planning applications.
Beech House and Attached Front Railings
- WRENN ID
- gentle-minaret-umber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 December 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Beech House and Attached Front Railings, Litton Cheney, DT2 9AG
- OS grid reference
- SY 552 906
- Coordinates
- 50.71397, -2.63453
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Beech House is an attached house located in a row of buildings in Litton Cheney, dating from the early 19th century. It features rubble-stone walls and a slate roof, with a brick stack at the right-hand gable. The house is two storeys tall and has three windows, which are three-light wooden casements with glazing bars, wooden cills, and lintels. The front door, situated at the center, has six recessed panels and is from the 19th century. There is a small cast-iron openwork porch with a segmental head above the door. The property also has attached cast-iron railings that are set on a front stone sleeper wall, which has chamfered coping stones.
Local climate
Beech House and Attached Front Railings receives an average of 840 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 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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 — 3 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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