The Old Salt House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. Former salt house. 2 related planning applications.
The Old Salt House
- WRENN ID
- brooding-loft-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Former salt house
- Address
- The Old Salt House, West Bay Road, Bridport, DT6 4HD
- OS grid reference
- SY 461 905
- Coordinates
- 50.71185, -2.76341
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Salt House is a building from the 18th or 19th century, constructed from hammer-dressed stone and topped with a pitched slate roof featuring coped gable ends. It is a single-storey structure with raked stone buttresses on the south and west sides. There is a segment-headed opening on the east side. This building was formerly used for the manufacture of salt.
Local climate
The Old Salt House receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% 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 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- 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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