30 and 32, Bell Street is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1973. Houses. 5 related planning applications.
30 and 32, Bell Street
- WRENN ID
- open-minaret-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 October 1973
- Type
- Houses
- Address
- 30 and 32, Bell Street, Shaftesbury, SP7 8AE
- OS grid reference
- ST 863 231
- Coordinates
- 51.00721, -2.19575
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A pair of houses dated 1859, located on Bell Street. The houses are constructed of squared rubble and have a slate roof. They feature casement windows with brick segmental arches. A small modern bow window with small panes is located on the ground floor of number 32. A plaque displaying the date 1859 and a Grosvenor crest is visible on the right-hand gable wall. Originally, each house had a trellis porch with a peaked roof and finial. A wooden boarded door remains in number 34, while a modern stone porch is present in number 32.
Local climate
30 and 32, Bell Street 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 — 2 transactions since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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