2-8, Barton Hill is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1973. Terrace of cottages. 3 related planning applications.
2-8, Barton Hill
- WRENN ID
- vast-stair-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 October 1973
- Type
- Terrace of cottages
- Address
- 2-8, Barton Hill, Shaftesbury, SP7 8DQ
- OS grid reference
- ST 864 231
- Coordinates
- 51.0078, -2.19424
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a row of cottages dating from the 18th century, with earlier elements. They have plain tile roofs, and roughly finished ashlar fronts.
Number 2 is two storeys high with three bays. It has windows with four panes of glass on either side of a central window with three panes. The front door has upper panels cut away and glazed, and a wooden hood supported by brackets.
Number 4 is two storeys high with an attic. It has a slate mansard roof, partially tiled; a hipped dormer window is also present. A modern three-light casement window occupies the first floor, while a sash window with intact glazing bars sits on the ground floor within a segmental arch. The doorway is topped with a segmental head and a flat hood on shaped brackets, sheltering a modern door.
Number 6 is two storeys high, with two windows. The windows have intact glazing bars, and the ground floor windows are topped with wooden lintels. The front door has upper panels cut away and glazed, a wooden frame, and a flat, 18th-century hood supported by shaped brackets.
Number 8 has been modernized, and dates from the early to mid-19th century. It is two storeys high with two windows. The gable end has sash windows and a plain tile roof; the rear of the roof was formerly covered with stone slates.
Numbers 2 to 8 (even) form a group with numbers 42 to 58 (even) on Bell Street and number 1 Victoria Street.
Local climate
2-8, Barton Hill receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 10 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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