17 and 19, The Close is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. Cottages. 2 related planning applications.
17 and 19, The Close
- WRENN ID
- last-corridor-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- 17 and 19, The Close, Blandford Forum, DT11 7HA
- OS grid reference
- ST 886 063
- Coordinates
- 50.85692, -2.16276
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
17 and 19 The Close are two-storey red brick cottages. Number 17 features a half dormer and a new window on the ground floor. Its doorway has a late Georgian reeded architrave with moulded roundels at the corners, and a hood supported by moulded brackets, with a modern glazed door. Number 19 has two 3-light casement windows both above and below, with the lower ones having segmental heads. Its central doorway also has a segmental head and contains a wooden boarded door within a frame. Numbers 17 and 19, along with numbers 19 to 22, form a group with Leslie House and The Tabernacle.
Local climate
17 and 19, The Close 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 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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