5, Leigh Road is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 February 1983. House. 1 related planning application.
5, Leigh Road
- WRENN ID
- half-rood-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- Mid Dorset and North Poole MP: Vikki Slade (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 February 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- 5, Leigh Road, Wimborne Minster, BH21 1AB
- OS grid reference
- SZ 012 998
- Coordinates
- 50.79811, -1.98405
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an 18th-century building on the north side of Leigh Road. It is part of a group of buildings and included on the list because of its contribution to the area's character, despite later alterations. The building has rendered (plastered) walls with a brick dentil cornice running along the eaves. The roof is tiled, and there is a rendered chimney stack. It is two storeys high. The ground floor now has a modern glazed door and a casement window. The first floor has two windows, which are modern pivoted sash windows.
Local climate
5, Leigh Road receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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 — 4 transactions since 1998
- 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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