Alcester House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1973. House. 7 related planning applications.
Alcester House
- WRENN ID
- roaming-hammer-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 October 1973
- Type
- House
- Address
- Alcester House, Bimport, Shaftesbury, SP7 8BA
- OS grid reference
- ST 858 227
- Coordinates
- 51.00438, -2.20316
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Alcester House is a building dating from 1615, located on the north-west side of Bimport. It is of mid-19th century or later construction. The north-east front features two storeys and three windows, built from ashlar stone. The roof is slate and hipped, with overhanging eaves. The windows have segmental heads and keystones, and there are no glazing bars. A prostyle porch with a moulded cornice and blocking course leads to a round-headed doorway. The building has two bays that face south-east onto the street, with a lower two-storey extension to the west. The stairs are prominently visible in the street scene.
Local climate
Alcester House 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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