7-9, South Street is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 May 1975. Shop. 13 related planning applications.
7-9, South Street
- WRENN ID
- long-iron-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 May 1975
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- 7-9, South Street, Dorchester, DT1 1BL
- OS grid reference
- SY 692 905
- Coordinates
- 50.71416, -2.43663
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a pair of 18th-century terraced buildings on South Street. They have grey and red brick frontages above modern shop fronts. The buildings are three stories high. Number 8 has four window ranges of sash windows, with contemporary wide glazing bars (one blocked), while numbers 7 and 9 each have three window ranges, with keystones above the windows of number 9. Number 8 features a good doorway with a round-headed opening, a panelled door, and reveals; a pediment sits on console brackets, and the entablature blocks above the brackets are enriched with paterae. Number 7 has the name "Frisby's" displayed in large sans-serif lettering between the first and second floors. A parapet tops number 9.
Local climate
7-9, South 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2018
- Related listed building consents — 13 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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