The Weigh House is a Grade II* listed building in the Southampton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 July 1953. A Medieval Weigh house.
The Weigh House
- WRENN ID
- muffled-chancel-acorn
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Southampton
- Constituency
- Southampton Itchen MP: Darren Paffey (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 July 1953
- Type
- Weigh house
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- The Weigh House, French Street, City of Southampton
- OS grid reference
- SU 419 111
- Coordinates
- 50.89793, -1.40516
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Weigh House is a medieval building dating from the mid-13th century to the mid-15th century, likely originally used to house the king's weigh beam. It is mentioned in 1454 as the Paysage House of the Earl of Warwick. The structure is a single-storey stone building featuring a 13th-century window in the north wall, which has two trefoiled lights and a quatrefoiled circle in the stonework between their heads. There is also a blocked 13th-century doorway in the east wall and a four-centred 15th-century doorway facing French Street. The Weigh House is scheduled as an ancient monument.
Local climate
The Weigh 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 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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