70-78, St James Street is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1952. Terraced house. 9 related planning applications.
70-78, St James Street
- WRENN ID
- lone-thatch-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 June 1952
- Type
- Terraced house
- Address
- 70-78, St James Street, Shaftesbury, SP7 8HF
- OS grid reference
- ST 860 226
- Coordinates
- 51.00281, -2.20033
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a row of cottages dating back to 1615. The cottages are low, two-story structures with rubble frontages. Number 74 has a cement-rendered front with imitation stone jointing. They have casement windows with small panes and thatched roofs. Numbers 76 and 78 have a lower eaves line, with number 78 featuring a large, thatched, gabled half-dormer. Each cottage has one window and a door, although number 70 has one window bay, and numbers 72 and 74 have two window bays, with number 74 having a wider frontage. The cottages have a lower frontage than number 68. The cottages form a group with numbers 68 to 86 (even), numbers 90 to 96 (even), gate piers, and an outhouse adjoining number 96.
Local climate
70-78, St James Street 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 10 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 9 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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