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

31, Bell Street

WRENN ID
knotted-pediment-root
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 October 1973
Type
Commercial building
Address
31, Bell Street, Shaftesbury, SP7 8AR
OS grid reference
ST 863 230
Coordinates
51.00684, -2.19606
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No 31 on Bell Street is an early 19th-century corner building, paired with No 33. It has two storeys and a basement, featuring two windows facing Mustons Lane and two windows on Bell Street, with a curved window at the corner between them. The front is rendered, and it has a slate hipped roof. The windows are three panes wide, although some glazing bars are missing from the ground floor windows. The original curved shop front has been altered, but the fascia and cornice remain; it now has a later shop front with two small windows that have glazing bars, angled towards a central doorway. The building has a higher frontage compared to No 29. Nos 29 to 35 (odd) form a group.

Local climate

31, 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2018
  • 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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  2. 20, Bell Street Grade II 16 m
  3. No 33, Including Annexe at South East End in Mustons Lane Grade II 16 m
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  6. 26, Bell Street Grade II 26 m
  7. 5, Mustons Lane Grade II 28 m
  8. Dwarf Wall, Railings and Gate Enclosing Garden Before Nos 30 and 32 Grade II 40 m
  9. 30 and 32, Bell Street Grade II 46 m
  10. 5, Parsons Pool Grade II 50 m