The Job Centre, Department of Employment is a Grade II listed building in the New Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 March 1987. A C18 House, shop.
The Job Centre, Department of Employment
- WRENN ID
- fallow-stronghold-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- New Forest
- Constituency
- New Forest West MP: Sir Desmond Swayne (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 March 1987
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- The Job Centre, Department of Employment, 52 and 54, High Street, Ringwood
- OS grid reference
- SU 146 052
- Coordinates
- 50.84652, -1.79314
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Job Centre, formerly a house, is now a shop located on the north side of Ringwood High Street. It dates from the mid-18th century and was refronted in the mid-19th century. The building is constructed of brick, with the front stuccoed, and features a slate roof, while the rear range has a tile roof. It is two storeys high with two bays and a three-bay wing at the rear set at an angle.
The front façade includes round-headed archways at each end of the ground floor, each with a glazed door underneath. Between these archways is a part shop window consisting of two plate glass windows, which are topped by two semi-circular lights. Above the right side, there is a cross with a bracket at each end. On the first floor, there are two 20th-century metal casement windows that fit within the original window openings. The building has an end stack. The rear of the building is older brickwork featuring 18th-century 12-pane sash windows.
Local climate
The Job Centre, Department of Employment receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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