53, High West Street is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 May 1950. House. 1 related planning application.
53, High West Street
- WRENN ID
- fossil-kitchen-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 May 1950
- Type
- House
- Address
- 53, High West Street, Dorchester, DT1 1UX
- OS grid reference
- SY 690 907
- Coordinates
- 50.71526, -2.43976
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 53 High West Street is a Grade II listed building with a late 18th century front that belongs to an older house. The exterior is finished in plaster and features three storeys with five ranges of sash windows. There are string courses at each cill level, with the windows on the two upper storeys being fluted. The building has a moulded cornice and a parapet. A projecting porch is supported by Tuscan columns and features an entablature, with a frieze decorated with alternating paterae and fluting. The entrance door has fielded panelling within a moulded doorcase. The first-floor lower sashes contain late 19th century stained glass. Inside, there are mullioned windows and moulded beams. This property is part of a group that includes Nos 48 to 65A, the Shire Hall, Holy Trinity Church, the Museum, St. Peter's Church, and the monument to William Barnes located in the churchyard immediately south of the West Tower.
Local climate
53, High West Street receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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 — 1 application
- 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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