1, St John's Hill is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1973. House.

1, St John's Hill

WRENN ID
grey-column-dust
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 October 1973
Type
House
Address
1, St John's Hill, Shaftesbury
OS grid reference
ST 858 224
Coordinates
51.00123, -2.20356
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 1 St John's Hill is a mid-19th century building constructed of ashlar with a fishscale tile roof. It faces southeast and features three mullioned windows on the ground floor, with a two-light casement window above. The central wing has three small windows with dripstones on the ground floor and one above, flanked by two projecting two-storey gabled wings. The left wing has ground floor windows with a continuous dripstone above, and an upper window also with a dripstone. The right wing contains a window above and a door below, both featuring dripstones.

Local climate

1, St John's Hill receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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