50, Bell Street is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1973. House.
50, Bell Street
- WRENN ID
- keen-minaret-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 October 1973
- Type
- House
- Address
- 50, Bell Street, Shaftesbury
- OS grid reference
- ST 864 231
- Coordinates
- 51.00755, -2.1948
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 50 Bell Street is a 17th-century building located on the north side of Bell Street. It is a two-storey structure featuring three windows and a slate gabled roof. The front is rough cast with a moulded string course above the ground floor and a moulded eaves cornice. The building has modern casement windows, with two lights above and three lights below, and the upper windows have drip stones. There is a central doorway and a rendered plinth with a footscraper. In the southwest wall, accessible through a passageway, there is an early to mid-19th-century door that is panelled in the lower part and glazed with margin lights in the upper part. Nos. 42 to 52A form a group with No. 1 Victoria Street and Nos. 2 to 8 Barton Hill.
Local climate
50, Bell 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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