Buckshaw House is a Grade II* listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 May 1984. House.
Buckshaw House
- WRENN ID
- weathered-doorway-ash
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 May 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Buckshaw House, Holwell
- OS grid reference
- ST 687 113
- Coordinates
- 50.90057, -2.44626
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Buckshaw House is a Grade II* listed house from the mid-18th century, featuring extensive alterations and additions from the 19th century. The building has rendered and ashlar walls with rusticated quoins and a hipped slate roof with brick stacks. Its symmetrical facade consists of two storeys and an attic, arranged in seven bays with a 2:3:2 configuration. The windows are sash style with glazing bars, and the central window above the door has a moulded surround with scrolled cheek pieces. The upper windows are adorned with stone aprons. The doorway features a segmental pediment set within an ashlar architrave and is supported by reeded consoles. There is a first-floor plat-band, and the upper floor is a 19th-century addition. Inside, all features date from the late 19th century.
Local climate
Buckshaw House 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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