No 55 Including Railings Ringstead House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 November 1950. House. 1 related planning application.
No 55 Including Railings Ringstead House
- WRENN ID
- veiled-tracery-quill
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 November 1950
- Type
- House
- Address
- No 55 Including Railings Ringstead House, 53, East Street, Bridport, DT6 3JX
- OS grid reference
- SY 467 929
- Coordinates
- 50.73339, -2.75523
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 55, including railings, is a building from 1835 located on East Street. It was originally founded as a Liberal Club by Henry Warburton, MP. The structure is made of colour washed brick and features a stone cornice and a moulded string course. It stands three storeys tall with a basement and has four ranges of sash windows with glazing bars. A continuous balcony with a cast iron balustrade, supported on brackets, runs along the front.
No. 55 has a shop and a bay window added to it. No. 53, adjacent to it, has a panelled door adorned with moulded acanthus ornament and a semi-circular fanlight, also featuring moulded acanthus ornament set in reveals. There are cast iron railings to the area and steps.
This building is part of a group that includes Nos. 37 to 47 (odd), the Unitarian Chapel, the Public Library, and Nos. 53 to 57 (odd).
Local climate
No 55 Including Railings Ringstead 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Radon risk assessment
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