23, High East Street is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 May 1975. A Late C19 Commercial building. 1 related planning application.
23, High East Street
- WRENN ID
- little-vestry-yew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 May 1975
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- 23, High East Street, Dorchester
- OS grid reference
- SY 693 907
- Coordinates
- 50.71538, -2.43607
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
23 High East Street is a late 19th-century building, likely designed by Crickmay and Son of Weymouth, who also designed Agriculture House on High West Street. The building is constructed of brown brick with ashlar dressings, which appear to be Bath stone. It stands three storeys tall and features continuous sill bands, a stringcourse, and a full entablature adorned with cartouches linked by swags beneath the frieze. The modillion eaves cornice and parapet add to its architectural detail.
The brick chimneys are embellished with ashlar ornamentation, including dentilled stringcourses, ornamental panels, coved cornices, and acroteria. The façade has three ranges of sash windows with moulded architraves. The first-floor windows are particularly ornate, featuring scroll-ended friezes with swags on oblong panels, dentilled cornices, and scroll-shaped pediments topped with terminal acroteria and shell motifs in the centers. The ends of the second-floor windows are slightly set back and have ornamental scrolls against them.
The building also includes a contemporary shop front with pilasters that have elaborate carved capitals and a modillion cornice. This design is noted for its vigorous style, reminiscent of "Greek" Thompson. The building, along with All Saint's Church and Nos 21 to 26, forms a cohesive group with No 1 Cornhill.
Local climate
23, High East 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
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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