Well Bottom is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 January 1985. House.
Well Bottom
- WRENN ID
- eternal-shingle-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 January 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Well Bottom, White Pit Lane, Melbury Abbas
- OS grid reference
- ST 889 202
- Coordinates
- 50.98118, -2.15935
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Well Bottom is a house, possibly originally a pair of cottages, likely built in the early 19th century. It features ashlar walls and a hipped slate roof, with a central rendered stack. There is a later outshut to the left, a plat-band, and a coved ashlar cornice. The building is symmetrical, standing two storeys tall with a five-window range. The windows are casements with leaded lights, consisting of two lights in the outer bays and three lights in the inner bays. There is a blind recess in the centre of the upper floor. The central entrance has a ribbed plank door. Inside, the house has shallow chamfered beams and open fireplaces with chamfered bressummers.
Local climate
Well Bottom 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2002
- No related consent applications matched
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