4, Church Lane is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1973. House.

4, Church Lane

WRENN ID
first-entrance-sorrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 October 1973
Type
House
Address
4, Church Lane, Shaftesbury
OS grid reference
ST 862 229
Coordinates
51.00574, -2.19773
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 4 Church Lane is a building dating from 1615, with a 19th-century front that is best viewed from Park Walk. It is two storeys high, featuring a slate roof and constructed of stone rubble with brick dressings. The ground floor has a large pair of segmental-headed wooden boarded doors. To the left, there is a nine flush panelled door set in a segmental arch, with the top five panels being small, cut away, and glazed. To the right, there is another wooden boarded door in a segmental-headed arch with rubbed brick dressings. Above these, there are windows and a loft door. The south side has a stone slab verge to the roof. No. 4 is part of a group that includes Nos 2 to 8 (even), Priory House, a dwarf wall, railings, and gate piers to Priory House.

Local climate

4, Church Lane 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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