56, West Street is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 August 1960. House.
56, West Street
- WRENN ID
- gentle-tower-cobweb
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 August 1960
- Type
- House
- Address
- 56, West Street, Fontmell Magna
- OS grid reference
- ST 865 168
- Coordinates
- 50.95118, -2.19295
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 56 West Street is a house dating from the early to mid 19th century. It is constructed of coursed rubble with a tiled roof and features end brick stacks. The building has two storeys and a two-window range, with 9-pane sash windows on the upper floor. The ground floor has 4-light casement windows, where the glazing bars of the central two lights create a semi-circular arch. There is a central panelled door with a transom light, situated under a tiled porch.
Local climate
56, West Street receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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