Spring Vale is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 October 1985. A C17 House.
Spring Vale
- WRENN ID
- sunken-timber-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 October 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Spring Vale, Winterborne Zelston
- OS grid reference
- SY 898 976
- Coordinates
- 50.77871, -2.14569
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Spring Vale is a detached house located in the village center of Winterborne Zelston, dating from the mid to late 17th century. It appears to have originally been two cottages. The building features colourwashed brick walls and a hipped thatched roof, with brick stacks at the ends and one to the left of center. It has one storey and an attic.
The left section of the house includes a central buttress and a ledged door. The ground floor has two casement windows with horizontal glazing bars and shutters. In the attic, there are two half-dormers with casement windows that also have glazing bars. The right section, which is slightly set back, has a glazed door leading into a 20th-century conservatory. The ground floor here also has two casement windows with glazing bars, one of which has shutters. The attic mirrors the left section with two half-dormers featuring casement windows with horizontal glazing bars.
A plat band runs at first floor level. Inside, the ground floor room at the right end contains a large open fireplace with a timber lintel and a bread oven, along with a chamfered ceiling beam. There is a timber-framed partition separating this room from the center room, and some early roof trusses are visible.
Local climate
Spring Vale receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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