Senior Citizens Room (Former Workmen's Club) is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 April 1976. Community room. 3 related planning applications.
Senior Citizens Room (Former Workmen's Club)
- WRENN ID
- brooding-rubble-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- Mid Dorset and North Poole MP: Vikki Slade (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 April 1976
- Type
- Community room
- Address
- Senior Citizens Room (Former Workmen's Club), Mill Lane, Wareham Town, BH20 4RA
- OS grid reference
- SY 922 873
- Coordinates
- 50.68613, -2.11095
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an 18th-century building, originally a Senior Citizens' Room and formerly a Workmen's Club. The lower portion of the walls is constructed from Purbeck stone, which has been dressed by hand, while the upper portion is red brick. The roof is tiled, with a coped gable at the west end featuring brick kneelers. Tall red brick stacks are also present. The building is two storeys and has an attic. The eaves have projecting brick courses. The west end features a range of blocked round-arched loading doors, alongside a modern entrance door. The north side includes two ranges of casement windows with glazing bars, along with a modern door. The south side has casement windows with glazing bars on the first floor.
Local climate
Senior Citizens Room (Former Workmen's Club) 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2008
- 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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