Melrose Dodill's is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1971. House. 8 related planning applications.
Melrose Dodill's
- WRENN ID
- unlit-steel-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 November 1971
- Type
- House
- Address
- Melrose Dodill's, 43 and 45, Hound Street, Sherborne, DT9 3AB
- OS grid reference
- ST 639 167
- Coordinates
- 50.94918, -2.51386
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Melrose Dodill's is a building located on Hound Street, dating from the 17th century with 18th century additions and later alterations. It features a long, two-storey front made of course rubble and has a stone slate roof.
No 43 has one segmental headed dormer and six windows on the first floor, five of which are wood mullioned and transomed windows with lead glazing, likely modern or replacements, while there is a sash window at the left end. On the ground floor, from left to right, there is a modern vehicular ledged door, three transomed and mullioned windows, a painted stone doorway with Doric pilasters and an entablature, a wrought iron lamp bracket, and at the right end, a six-fielded panelled door with a rectangular fanlight.
No 45 is two storeys with an attic and has four window bays, featuring a segmental headed dormer and two-light metal casements with lead glazing. The doorway in the third bay from the left has a moulded architrave frame and a moulded cornice on carved console brackets, with a door that has cover strips and ornate hinges. The interior includes panelling.
Nos 33 to 49 (odd) are part of a group.
Local climate
Melrose Dodill's 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 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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