Pitt House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1956. A C19 House. 1 related planning application.
Pitt House
- WRENN ID
- strange-balcony-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1956
- Type
- House
- Address
- Pitt House, 11, Long Street, Cerne Abbas, DT2 7JF
- OS grid reference
- ST 665 011
- Coordinates
- 50.80896, -2.47674
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pitt House is an attached house located on Long Street in Cerne Abbas. It dates from the early 19th century, although it may have an earlier core. The building features brick walls laid in Flemish bond with the appropriate closers. It has a slate roof, with a rendered stack on the left gable and a brick stack on the right gable. The house is two storeys high and has dormers. There are four windows, which are sashes with thin glazing bars, and they are adorned with gauged brick voussoirs and stone cills. The front door is situated to the right of centre and has six recessed panels within a rounded-headed surround, topped by a semi-circular fanlight with glazing bars.
Local climate
Pitt House receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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