Dorset House is a Grade II listed building in the Chesterfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1976. House.
Dorset House
- WRENN ID
- unlit-rotunda-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chesterfield
- Constituency
- Chesterfield MP: Mr Toby Perkins (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 August 1976
- Type
- House
- Address
- Dorset House, 2, Devonshire Street
- OS grid reference
- SK 384 713
- Coordinates
- 53.23787, -1.42565
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dorset House is an early 19th-century building located on Devonshire Street. It features a painted brick facade with a moulded eaves cornice and a hipped slate roof. The building stands three storeys tall and has one window on the second floor and one window on the first floor. The ground floor includes one window and a small shop window, with a central door. The windows are sashes with glazing bars, boxed frames, and stuccoed lintels. The shop window has a small round arched door. The house door consists of eight raised and fielded panels, an architrave, and a rectangular fanlight with tracery, topped by a stuccoed lintel.
Local climate
Dorset House receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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