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
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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