The Beaminster Institute is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 December 1983. Institute, public hall. 3 related planning applications.
The Beaminster Institute
- WRENN ID
- knotted-basalt-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 December 1983
- Type
- Institute, public hall
- Address
- The Beaminster Institute, Fleet Street, DT8 3EF
- OS grid reference
- ST 480 013
- Coordinates
- 50.80951, -2.73835
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Beaminster Institute is a detached institute and public hall, built in 1902. It currently serves as a local hall with a private club above. The building features ashlar stone walls with a chamfered plinth and an ovolo string-course at the first floor level. The eaves-cornice is moulded wood, and the roof is hipped slate. There are projecting stacks on the end walls, which rise into stone stacks with moulded cornices. The structure is two storeys high and has five sash windows with glazing-bars, each with projecting stone architraves and stone cills. The front door is centrally located and features a round-headed doorway with roll-moulding and a large dropped keystone. The door itself is a two-leaf design with panels and a semi-circular fanlight with glazing-bars. A stone at the right-hand corner above the plinth reads: "This stone was laid by Peter Meech, a native of Beaminster, 17th June 1902."
Local climate
The Beaminster Institute receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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
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