Old Bell Stores is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 October 1960. House, shop. 2 related planning applications.
Old Bell Stores
- WRENN ID
- ragged-cornice-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 October 1960
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- Old Bell Stores, the Cross, Okeford Fitzpaine, DT11 0RF
- OS grid reference
- ST 806 109
- Coordinates
- 50.89762, -2.27654
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Bell Stores is a building that likely started as two houses but is now a combination of a house and a shop. It dates from the late 18th century and is constructed of rubble and brick in Flemish bond, with a whitewashed exterior that features fake half-timbering. The roof is gable-ended and tiled, with a brick chimney stack on the right side.
The building has two storeys and a five-window range. On the ground floor, the left side has two shop windows, while the right side features one similar window and a three-light 20th-century casement window without glazing bars. On the upper floor, there are two three-light casements with horizontal glazing bars on the left, and three two-light casements with glazing bars on the right. The glazed front door is adorned with pilaster surrounds and a segmental hood supported by scrolled brackets.
Local climate
Old Bell Stores receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2002
- 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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