Perle School of Dancing is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 November 1950. Independent chapel, cinema. 5 related planning applications.
Perle School of Dancing
- WRENN ID
- drifting-zinc-pigeon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 November 1950
- Type
- Independent chapel, cinema
- Address
- Perle School of Dancing, 9, Barrack Street, Bridport, DT6 3LX
- OS grid reference
- SY 468 929
- Coordinates
- 50.73374, -2.75488
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Perle School of Dancing, formerly known as the Lyric Cinema, is located at No. 9 Barrack Street. This building was rebuilt in 1777 and originally served as an Independent Chapel when the Independents separated from the Unitarians in 1746. Since the establishment of the Independent (now United Reformed) Church in 1859, it has functioned as a Temperance Hall, the Liberal Hall, and the Electric Palace Cinema.
The structure features hammer-dressed stone and has a slate roof with one hipped gable. It is adorned with a modillion eaves cornice and includes a round-headed doorway with a round-headed window above it. There is a tablet engraved with "Liberal Club 1886" above the lower part of the window, and round-headed windows are located on each side of the entrance.
Nos 3 to 11 (odd) form a group with this building.
Local climate
Perle School of Dancing receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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