681, Dorchester Road is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 December 1997. House.
681, Dorchester Road
- WRENN ID
- sacred-courtyard-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 December 1997
- Type
- House
- Address
- 681, Dorchester Road, Weymouth
- OS grid reference
- SY 668 837
- Coordinates
- 50.65291, -2.47048
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 681 Dorchester Road is a detached house dating from the early 19th century. It has a rendered exterior and a slate roof, presenting a typical symmetrical villa design. The house is two storeys high with three windows, featuring 12-pane sashes above 16-pane sashes set in plain reveals with stooled stone sills. The original front door is a flush six-panel design, with the top two panels glazed. There are chimney stacks at each end of the building. The left gable has a two-light casement window on the upper floor, while the back wall includes an early two-light casement window at the top right and a mid-height stair sash window with bars. The right gable is plain. The interior has not been inspected. The house is set back from the road and has seen little external alteration.
Local climate
681, Dorchester Road receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% 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 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% 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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