The Old Market House Restaurant is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1956. Restaurant. 2 related planning applications.
The Old Market House Restaurant
- WRENN ID
- haunted-lancet-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1956
- Type
- Restaurant
- Address
- The Old Market House Restaurant, Long Street, Cerne Abbas, DT2 7JG
- OS grid reference
- ST 665 011
- Coordinates
- 50.80918, -2.4755
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an early to mid-19th century former market house, now a restaurant, likely built on the site of a medieval guildhall. The building is constructed of stone walls, now stuccoed and painted, with slate roofs and a rendered brick stack on the rear (east) gable. The west elevation has a ground floor shop front with two large windows divided by glazing bars (28 panes to each). Plain pilasters support a moulded capital and base, and a plain entablature with a dentil cornice is above. A central two-leaf door with marginal glazing is also from the 19th century. The first floor has two sash windows with thin glazing bars, and the second floor has blocked windows. The north side features four windows, sash windows with glazing bars. The ground floor to the right has a large fixed window with glazing bars (24 panes), pilasters, and a moulded cornice. A 20th-century door is located centrally. The top floor is above a moulded white cornice and has blocked openings.
Local climate
The Old Market House Restaurant receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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 — 5 transactions since 2001
- 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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