38 and 40, Dorchester Road is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1974. Semi-detached houses. 1 related planning application.
38 and 40, Dorchester Road
- WRENN ID
- blind-plinth-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1974
- Type
- Semi-detached houses
- Address
- 38 and 40, Dorchester Road, Weymouth, DT4 7JZ
- OS grid reference
- SY 679 804
- Coordinates
- 50.62323, -2.45487
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
38 and 40 Dorchester Road are a pair of semi-detached houses built in the early to mid 19th century. They have a rendered exterior and a slate hipped roof. Originally designed as a symmetrical villa, the two halves now display different details on the street front. Each house has two storeys and two windows.
No. 38 features 4-pane sash windows set on stone sills, and to the right, there is a 6-panel fielded door with a radial fanlight, accessed by one step. The right side of the house has a 12-pane sash window on the first floor and a deep 18-pane stair sash window.
No. 40 has a tent verandah supported by cast-iron uprights and a balustrade, which covers two French doors with transom lights. The ground floor includes a large canted bay window with glazing bars only on the top light of the sashes. To the left, there is a porch with panelled cheeks, a 4-pane transom light, and reeded pilasters, leading to a 6-panel fielded door beneath a plain fanlight. There is also a deep stair light on the left return. The houses have box eaves and a large central rendered chimney stack.
The interior has not been inspected. These houses were likely built around the same time as St Augustine's Church and are part of a group that includes Nos. 34 and 36, as well as 42 and 44.
Local climate
38 and 40, Dorchester Road receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% 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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