The Old Malthouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 May 1975. Malthouse.
The Old Malthouse
- WRENN ID
- sheer-cornice-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 May 1975
- Type
- Malthouse
- Address
- The Old Malthouse, 1, Fordington High Street, Dorchester, DT1 1LA
- OS grid reference
- SY 695 907
- Coordinates
- 50.71565, -2.43258
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Malthouse is a building dating from the 18th century or early 19th century, located on Fordington High Street. It features a chequer brick façade and a pitched slate roof, standing two storeys high with attics. The front has three ranges of segment-headed casements with glazing bars, along with two ranges of segment-headed blind panels. There is one flat-topped attic dormer with slate-hung cheeks and a casement with glazing bars. The building includes sliding doors, and the west elevation has two ranges of windows with glazing bars and a semi-circular blind panel above each. The central range features three planked doors stacked vertically, each with Portland ashlar lintels that have three-centred arches cut into their lower sides. There are remains of a winch-hoist and a semi-circular lunette above the doors. The north elevation displays four ranges of segment-headed casements with glazing bars, a fixed window with glazing bars in the centre of the first floor, and a segment-headed blind panel in the centre of the ground floor.
Local climate
The Old Malthouse 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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