8, Long Cross is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1973. House.
8, Long Cross
- WRENN ID
- buried-ember-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 October 1973
- Type
- House
- Address
- 8, Long Cross, Shaftesbury
- OS grid reference
- ST 852 232
- Coordinates
- 51.00849, -2.21135
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 8 Long Cross is a building dating from the late 18th century to the early 19th century. It is two storeys high and features two windows. The roof is tiled and has a half hip at the left end. The windows are four panes wide, and there is a 19th-century shop window on the left side. The door has a slightly segmental head. On the east gable end, there is one window bay. Attached to the south is a single-storey annexe that is contemporary with the main building. This annexe has a plain tile roof and rounded corners, with one window that has glazing bars and one door.
Local climate
8, Long Cross 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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