17, The Square is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 December 1983. Cottage.
17, The Square
- WRENN ID
- tilted-glass-cobweb
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 December 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 17, The Square, Beaminster
- OS grid reference
- ST 480 012
- Coordinates
- 50.80867, -2.73864
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
17 The Square is an attached cottage that was formerly a shoe shop, dating from the mid-19th century. It features washed stone walls and an asbestos slate roof with stone gable-coping. There is a brick stack on the right-hand gable. The building has two storeys and two windows. The ground floor includes a shop front with a four-light wooden mullion window and a fascia, topped by a continuous moulded wood cornice. The front door, located at the center, is a wooden, flush-panelled door with four lights, dating from the 20th century. On the first floor, there are two sash windows with vertical glazing bars. This building is included for its group value.
Local climate
17, The Square receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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