1, Bell Street is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1952. House. 2 related planning applications.
1, Bell Street
- WRENN ID
- under-window-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- 1, Bell Street, Swanage, BH19 2RY
- OS grid reference
- SZ 017 789
- Coordinates
- 50.61045, -1.97656
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
1 Bell Street is a two-storey building, likely dating from the 18th century. It features walls and a roof made of Purbeck stone, with a brick chimney stack. The ground floor includes a central doorway with a ledged door, flanked by two casement windows that have glazing bars and stone arched heads with projecting keystones. On the first floor, there are two additional casement windows with glazing bars. This building is similar in style to No. 339 High Street and is noted as RCHM Monument 55.
Local climate
1, Bell Street receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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 — 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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