Spread Eagles is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 January 1985. A Mid C19 House. 3 related planning applications.
Spread Eagles
- WRENN ID
- blind-copper-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 January 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Spread Eagles, Melbury Abbas, SP7 0DU
- OS grid reference
- ST 883 197
- Coordinates
- 50.97667, -2.16742
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Spread Eagles is a house dating from the mid-19th century. It is constructed of coursed squared rubble with a gable-ended tiled roof, featuring stone stacks to the gable ends and to the left of the front door. The house has two storeys and an irregular arrangement of windows. These are stone mullioned windows, with two and three lights. A four-centred headed doorway is located in the second bay from the right. There is a blocked door in the second bay from the left, and a two-storey canted bay window to the right.
Local climate
Spread Eagles 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 — 2 transactions since 2012
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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