18 and 19 is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 December 1977. House. 2 related planning applications.
18 and 19
- WRENN ID
- ragged-lintel-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 December 1977
- Type
- House
- Address
- 18 and 19, West Orchard, SP7 0LJ
- OS grid reference
- ST 823 164
- Coordinates
- 50.94739, -2.25281
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 18 and 19 are a house, likely originating in the 16th century and substantially refaced in the 18th century, and now used as two cottages. The construction is timber frame with brick, featuring a greensand ashlar plinth. The roof is thatched, half-hipped on the left and gabled on the right, with brick stacks positioned to the right gable and to the left of the front door. The two storeys are arranged with a four-window range. The windows are predominantly 3-light casements with leaded lights; the upper floor window above the doors is a similar 2-light casement. Some of the right-hand windows contain diamond-paned glass. Ground floor windows are set beneath segmental brick arches. There are paired front doors.
Internally, the layout features three rooms arranged around a cross-passage, which backs onto the central stack. The building demonstrates true-cruck construction, with visible traces of soot-blackening and some plank and muntin partitioning. The hall appears to have had an internal jetty. Originally, the house seems to have been an open hall with a ceiled solar and possibly an integral byre. The hall was subsequently ceiled, a stack inserted, and the building was refaced and converted into two cottages during the 18th century.
Local climate
18 and 19 receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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 — 3 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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