The Boat House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 December 1994. Boat house. 1 related planning application.

The Boat House

WRENN ID
eastward-tracery-vale
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 December 1994
Type
Boat house
Address
The Boat House, Studland, BH13 7EE
OS grid reference
SZ 031 877
Coordinates
50.68951, -1.95654
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Boat House is a single-storey boat house located at the end of a terrace, attached to the Warden's House to the east. It features brick walls that are plastered and has a slate roof with a battlemented parapet at the gable end facing the quay. The building has a pair of ledged doors and a cross-shaped opening in the gable, along with a string course below the battlements. The Boat House is part of an important group of structures along the harbour frontage and is a property of the National Trust.

Local climate

The Boat House receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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