No 23 and Attached Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1993. Detached house.
No 23 and Attached Railings
- WRENN ID
- steep-wattle-hyssop
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1993
- Type
- Detached house
- Address
- No 23 and Attached Railings, Delhi Lane, Portland
- OS grid reference
- SY 692 717
- Coordinates
- 50.54464, -2.43497
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 23 is a detached house dating from the late 18th century. It is built of squared coursed stone with good flush dressings, while the back and ends are rendered. The house has a slate roof and features a 2-unit plan with a central entry. The symmetrical front has three storeys and two windows. The third floor has 3/3-pane sashes, while the second floor has 6/12-pane sashes above 12/12-pane sashes. The central 20th-century door is located under a small transom light and leads to a stone landing accessed by four steps. There is a simple railing with spear heads on the left and a plain handrail on the right. A brick stack is positioned on the right side of the house.
Local climate
No 23 and Attached Railings receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2004
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