48, West Street is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 November 1959. House.
48, West Street
- WRENN ID
- haunted-spindle-quill
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 November 1959
- Type
- House
- Address
- 48, West Street, Corfe Castle
- OS grid reference
- SY 959 818
- Coordinates
- 50.63647, -2.05854
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 48 on West Street in Corfe Castle is a house at the right end of a terrace, which was once used as a shop and incorporated a former bakery. It dates from the 18th century and was altered in the early 19th century. The building features rubble stone walls, with the left section having a stone slate roof and the right section having a slate roof. It is two storeys high.
In the left section, there is a blocked doorway, while the ground floor has one sash window with glazing bars. On the first floor, there are two similar sash windows. The right section has a ground floor that includes a single-panel door flanked by three-light sashes with glazing bars, which replaced the original shop windows. The first floor of this section also has two sash windows with glazing bars.
Internally, the old bake ovens are still present. This property is managed by the National Trust.
Local climate
48, West Street receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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