Pier View Flats is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 November 1973. Flats. 3 related planning applications.

Pier View Flats

WRENN ID
lesser-slate-tarn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 November 1973
Type
Flats
Address
Pier View Flats, Seymer Road, Swanage, BH19 2AQ
OS grid reference
SZ 033 786
Coordinates
50.60738, -1.95414
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Pier View Flats are early 19th-century flats, originally the rear portion of the east wing of the Royal Victoria Hotel. The building has rendered walls and a slate roof hidden behind a parapet. It is two storeys high, featuring double-hung sash windows with glazing bars. A stone moulded cornice runs along the eaves. The building is noted as RCHM Monument 8.

Local climate

Pier View Flats receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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  • Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
  • Sale history — 25 transactions since 1996
  • 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
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