Customs House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 January 1974. Public building. 2 related planning applications.
Customs House
- WRENN ID
- long-arch-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 January 1974
- Type
- Public building
- Address
- Customs House, Cobb Road, Lyme Regis, DT7 3JT
- OS grid reference
- SY 337 916
- Coordinates
- 50.72086, -2.93947
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Customs House is a building dating from 1845 to March 1846. It is two storeys high and originally had three window bays, with windows set within a pilastered portico featuring a moulded pediment. There are blank bays at either end of the building. The sash windows retain their original glazing bars. The front is stuccoed, and the double doors have three moulded panels, with the centre panel glazed. A large bracket projects from the first floor. Originally, there was a balcony to the first floor and railings to the ground floor. The Customs House forms a group with the Shell Shop and the Old Bonded Store Flats and shops and closes a vista at the south-west end of Marine Parade.
Local climate
Customs House receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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 — 4 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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