The Retreat is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 October 1985. House.
The Retreat
- WRENN ID
- stark-railing-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 October 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Retreat, Chapel Street, Milborne St. Andrew
- OS grid reference
- SY 802 975
- Coordinates
- 50.7769, -2.28196
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Retreat is a detached house located on Chapel Street in Milborne Saint Andrew, dating from the early 19th century. It features roughcast walls and a low-pitched slate roof, with brick stacks at each end. Designed in the Regency style, the house stands two storeys tall and has slightly projecting plaster quoins and pilasters on the front wall. The central entrance consists of a six-panel door topped by a semi-circular fanlight with radiating glazing, flanked by Tuscan pilasters that support a slightly projecting moulded canopy. The ground floor includes two sash windows with glazing bars, while the first floor has three similar windows.
Local climate
The Retreat receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% 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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