Old Sarum is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1973. House.

Old Sarum

WRENN ID
lunar-obsidian-wren
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 October 1973
Type
House
Address
Old Sarum, Salisbury Street, Shaftesbury
OS grid reference
ST 866 227
Coordinates
51.00432, -2.19119
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No 59 Old Sarum is a building dating from the late 18th century to the early 19th century. It is two storeys high and has three bays, although the centre bay is blocked. The front is made of colour-washed ashlar, and it features a slate gabled roof with small flanking stacks. The windows are four panes wide. There are coupled doorways set within a common three-centred arch, which have four-centred fanlights above them, and the doors are four-panelled. This building is part of a group that includes Nos 47, 49, the Roman Catholic Church of St Edward the Martyr, and Nos 53 to 59 (odd).

Local climate

Old Sarum 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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