8-12, Victoria Street is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1973. Cottage row.

8-12, Victoria Street

WRENN ID
dim-eave-dew
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 October 1973
Type
Cottage row
Address
8-12, Victoria Street, Shaftesbury
OS grid reference
ST 863 232
Coordinates
51.00813, -2.19536
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Nos 8 to 12 on Victoria Street are a row of 18th-century, two-storey cottages built from stone rubble, positioned at right angles to the road. The cottages face southwards, with three windows in No 8 and additional windows in Nos 10 and 12. The windows feature wood casements and modern metal casements. The doorways are plain, with two of them having hoods. No 8 is topped with a plain tile roof, while the other cottages have modern pantile roofs.

Local climate

8-12, Victoria 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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