Dormers is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1952. House. 2 related planning applications.

Dormers

WRENN ID
keen-portal-claret
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
Mid Dorset and North Poole MP: Vikki Slade (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 June 1952
Type
House
Address
Dormers, 6, East Borough, Wimborne Minster, BH21 1PF
OS grid reference
SU 010 001
Coordinates
50.80065, -1.98701
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Dormers is a building located on East Borough, dating from the 18th century for the main front range, with a parallel rear range and rear wing from the 17th century. The main facade features rendered walls and a tiled roof with a moulded eaves cornice, which is partly obscured by a blocked-out fascia. The building is two storeys high with attics and has a plat band at the first floor level. There is a central doorway with a classical surround and a portico supported by free-standing Tuscan columns, topped with a pediment-shaped hood and a classical entablature, along with an ornamental fanlight. The ground floor has four double-hung sash windows, though the glazing bars are missing, and there are five similar windows on the first floor. The attic contains three dormers with hipped roofs and metal casements featuring lead lights. There is a later extension to the south.

Inside, the ground floor of the main range includes a modern fireplace and a plaster ceiling designed in a 17th-century style, along with oak panelling of a similar type. Behind this range is an earlier section, likely from the 17th century, which features exposed chamfered oak beams supporting the first floor. Further back is a modern flat-roofed extension. At the southern end, there is a projecting rear wing constructed of timber framing, also likely from the 17th century, with a tiled roof and two storeys, although all windows in this section have been renewed.

Local climate

Dormers receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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