26, Bell Street is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1973. A Georgian House. 1 related planning application.

26, Bell Street

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 October 1973
Type
House
Period
Georgian
Address
26, Bell Street, Shaftesbury, SP7 8AE
OS grid reference
ST 863 230
Coordinates
51.00708, -2.19602
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

26 Bell Street is a building dating from 1615, located on the north side of Bell Street. It features a 18th-century front and is two storeys high with two windows. The front is plastered, and it has sash windows. The central doorway is topped with an 18th-century hood, although the stone opening may be older. The roof has been covered with new slates. The buildings numbered 14 to 26 (even) are part of a group.

Local climate

26, 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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