1, Back Street is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1985. Residential.

1, Back Street

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 May 1985
Type
Residential
Address
1, Back Street, Abbotsbury
OS grid reference
SY 576 853
Coordinates
50.66658, -2.60032
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No 1 Back Street is a detached schoolmaster's house built in the mid 19th century. It features rubble-stone walls that are squared and coursed, and a slate roof with stone gable copings and moulded stone kneelers. The eaves are boxed, and there are stone stacks at each gable with chamfered set-offs and cornices. The building has two storeys and three windows, with three-light stone mullioned windows on the ground floor and two-light stone mullioned windows above. All windows have a complete set of lozenge-pattern glazing bars and stone labels above them. The front door is centrally located and has a depressed-arch head with moulded stone jambs, along with a label above.

Local climate

1, Back Street receives an average of 840 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 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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