51, High West Street is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 May 1950. A C18 Residential. 6 related planning applications.
51, High West Street
- WRENN ID
- roaming-stone-onyx
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 May 1950
- Type
- Residential
- Address
- 51, High West Street, Dorchester, DT1 1UT
- OS grid reference
- SY 690 907
- Coordinates
- 50.71529, -2.44003
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a three-storey, three-window house dating from the 18th century, with a stucco facade. It features a splayed bay window on the first floor and a 19th-century shopfront below. A moulded cornice runs along the top, topped by a parapet. The windows are sash windows. The house has a particularly noteworthy late 18th-century doorcase, featuring a round-headed opening, panelled reveals, and gothic glazing bars to the fanlight. The doorcase’s pediment and entablature, enriched with paterae, are supported by moulded console brackets. The building is part of a group of properties and structures including the Shire Hall, Holy Trinity Church, the Museum, St. Peter's Church, and a monument to William Barnes in the churchyard, all located immediately south of the West Tower.
Local climate
51, High West Street receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2019
- Related listed building consents — 6 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings