Barton End, and Attached Walls at Rear is a Grade II* listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 December 1983. A Early Modern House. 8 related planning applications.

Barton End, and Attached Walls at Rear

WRENN ID
dim-minaret-reed
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 December 1983
Type
House
Period
Early Modern
Address
Barton End, and Attached Walls at Rear, Fleet Street, Beaminster, DT8 3EH
OS grid reference
ST 481 015
Coordinates
50.8113, -2.73773
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Barton End is a single house dating from the 17th century and early 18th century, located on Fleet Street. The building features brick walls with burnt headers, a stone plinth, and stone rusticated quoins. It has a moulded stone cornice and a parapet with ramped corners, topped with a tile roof that has steep pitch and stone gable-copings. The front range, built around 1730, has a rear staircase projection and is two storeys high with attics. Its symmetrical facade includes five sash windows with glazing bars, stone window architraves featuring a projecting dropped key, and stone cills. The two-light dormers have filed cheeks and hipped tile roofs. The front door is framed by a stone surround with a plain frieze and a part-open stone pediment supported by stone volute-brackets. The door itself is wooden with flush panels and two top lights.

The rear range is also two storeys and features four-light stone mullions with labels above, including both renewed and original fixed leaded lights and iron casements. There is a two-storey porch with a depressed straight-chamfered doorway and a raised label above it. The 18th-century stair-wing at the rear has a round-headed window with a keystone and a plain blind oval-shaped oculus.

Inside the rear wing, there are extensive flagstone floors and a large open fireplace with a re-set wooden lintel. A studded plank door with strap-hinges is located beside the fireplace. On the first floor, there is a stone fireplace with a Tudor-arch head and roll and concave-moulded jambs. The 18th-century staircase features an oak handrail with inverted bulbous balusters. The window shutters in the front of the house have fielded panelling.

There is a 20th-century extension to the right of the house along the street. At the rear of the 17th-century wing, there are stone walls with stone coping that run for 25 metres and stand approximately 15 feet high. Attached to the rear are stone-rubble garden walls that are about 8 feet high.

Local climate

Barton End, and Attached Walls at Rear 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 71% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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 — 4 transactions since 2002
  • Related listed building consents — 8 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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