The Priors is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 May 1984. House. 1 related planning application.
The Priors
- WRENN ID
- blind-remnant-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 May 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Priors, Brown Street, Bishop's Caundle, DT9 5NE
- OS grid reference
- ST 697 128
- Coordinates
- 50.9142, -2.43237
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Priors is a house from the 17th century, featuring rubble walls and a thatched gable-ended roof with stone stacks at each end. It has two storeys and a range of four windows, which are made up of two and three light casements with horizontal glazing bars. There is a single storey tiled outshut attached to the building. It is suggested that the house may have originally had a three-room cross passage plan.
Local climate
The Priors receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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.
- No sale records on file
- 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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