12, Water Street is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1955. House. 1 related planning application.
12, Water Street
- WRENN ID
- tired-joist-sienna
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1955
- Type
- House
- Address
- 12, Water Street, Cranborne, BH21 5QB
- OS grid reference
- SU 057 132
- Coordinates
- 50.91889, -1.91968
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 12 Water Street is a detached house dated 1712, with a 19th-century single bay extension to the right. The building features brickwork that is part Flemish-bond and part irregular bond, using very narrow bricks. It has tiled roofs with gable brick copings and kneelers at the ends of the original range, along with a brick stack at the right end of the original structure. The house is two storeys high and has a three-window range, with nine-pane sash windows set under flat brick arches. The central entrance consists of a plank door topped with a flat hood, and there is a carved stone plaque above the door. Inside, notable features include two chamfered beams.
Local climate
12, Water 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 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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- 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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