5, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1956. House. 1 related planning application.
5, High Street
- WRENN ID
- ruined-groin-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1956
- Type
- House
- Address
- 5, High Street, Athelhampton and Puddletown, DT2 8RT
- OS grid reference
- SY 755 943
- Coordinates
- 50.74846, -2.34789
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 5 High Street is a house attached to the Post Office on the right, dating from the early 18th century. It features colourwashed brick walls, a slate roof, and brick stacks. The building has two storeys and a cellar, with a plat band at the first floor and a dentil cornice at the eaves. The ground floor includes a six-panel door beneath a flat hood supported by shaped brackets, flanked by two sash windows with glazing bars and wide architraves, all set under gauged arches with projecting keystones. On the first floor, there are two similar sash windows and a central blind window. At the right end, there is a lean-to extension with a lower wall made of rubble stone, which contains one sash window with glazing bars.
Local climate
5, High Street receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% 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 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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