Alfa Lighting, and the Coppersmiths is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 February 1983. Commercial building. 1 related planning application.
Alfa Lighting, and the Coppersmiths
- WRENN ID
- unlit-hammer-sable
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- Mid Dorset and North Poole MP: Vikki Slade (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 February 1983
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- Alfa Lighting, and the Coppersmiths, 6, West Street, Wimborne Minster, BH21 1JN
- OS grid reference
- SU 008 000
- Coordinates
- 50.79996, -1.9892
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a late 17th-century building, originally timber-framed, which was altered and refaced in the 18th century. The walls are now rendered, and the roof is covered with modern pantiles. There are rendered stacks. The building is two storeys high. The ground floor has one double-hung sash window with a central glazing bar. A doorway, leading to a side passage, features a flush panel door with a moulded canopy supported by console brackets. A 19th-century shop front, belonging to The Coppersmiths, has a timber surround and a glazed door. The first floor has two double-hung sash windows with glazing bars. Internally, evidence of the original timber-frame construction remains. A rear outbuilding, largely rebuilt, was formerly a smithy; part of the brick forge remains, partly reconstructed.
Local climate
Alfa Lighting, and the Coppersmiths receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1999
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings