Fontmell Potteries is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1985. Industrial.
Fontmell Potteries
- WRENN ID
- fallow-spandrel-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 June 1985
- Type
- Industrial
- Address
- Fontmell Potteries, West Street, Fontmell Magna
- OS grid reference
- ST 867 168
- Coordinates
- 50.95122, -2.19069
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fontmell Potteries is an industrial building dated 1876, located on the north side of West Street in Fontwell Magna. It features English bond brick walls and a hipped slate roof, which includes a large ventilator. The building has a dentilled eaves cornice, and part of the roof on the left is flat, supporting a water tank. It is three storeys high with a three-window range. The openings are set under gauged brick arches with keystones, and the windows are mainly four-pane sashes. The upper floor has two two-light casements beneath a single arch, and there is a central plank door. To the left, there is what was likely a former vehicle entrance, which now serves as a showroom entrance. Additionally, there is a projecting wooden hoist on the upper floor to the left. The building is included principally for its group value.
Local climate
Fontmell Potteries 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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