Barley Close is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 October 1960. House.
Barley Close
- WRENN ID
- stranded-gutter-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 October 1960
- Type
- House
- Address
- Barley Close, Village Street, Stourton Caundle
- OS grid reference
- ST 714 151
- Coordinates
- 50.93491, -2.40808
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Barley Close is a 17th-century house located on Village Street in Stourton Caundle. The building is constructed from squared, coursed rubble and features a thatched roof with gable ends. It has one brick stack on the left gable and stone stacks to the right of the front door and on the right gable. The house is two storeys high and has a five-window range, with 20th-century two-light casements that include horizontal glazing bars. To the left of the stack, there is a 20th-century part-glazed door that is topped with a segmental hood supported by shaped brackets featuring dentils.
Local climate
Barley Close 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1995
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