Sluice, 30 Feet East of the 2 Bridges on the Path Leading from Hangmans Cottage Towards Frome Whitfield House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 May 1975. Sluice.

Sluice, 30 Feet East of the 2 Bridges on the Path Leading from Hangmans Cottage Towards Frome Whitfield House

WRENN ID
crooked-dormer-sienna
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 May 1975
Type
Sluice
Address
Sluice, 30 Feet East of the 2 Bridges on the Path Leading from Hangmans Cottage Towards Frome Whitfield House, Northernhay, Dorchester
OS grid reference
SY 690 910
Coordinates
50.71813, -2.43924
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The sluice located 30 feet east of the two bridges on the path leading from Hangmans Cottage towards Frome Whitfield House is likely from the 18th or 19th century. It is constructed of brick and features ashlar kerb stones. The sluice retains the remains of wooden sluice gates and is associated with the creation of the Frome water meadows.

Local climate

Sluice, 30 Feet East of the 2 Bridges on the Path Leading from Hangmans Cottage Towards Frome Whitfield House 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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