The Mount is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1973. House. 2 related planning applications.

The Mount

WRENN ID
heavy-terrace-crag
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 October 1973
Type
House
Address
The Mount, Salisbury Road, Shaftesbury, SP7 8NL
OS grid reference
ST 868 226
Coordinates
51.00314, -2.18832
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Mount is an early 19th-century building located on Salisbury Road. It is two storeys high and features three windows. The roof is hipped and covered with slate, and it has overhanging eaves. The front of the building is rendered, with windows that are four panes wide set in reveals. The upper windows have window blind covers. There is a later round-headed porch with wide sidelights and three windows facing northwest.

Local climate

The Mount 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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