Bridge House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 May 1952. Office. 1 related planning application.
Bridge House
- WRENN ID
- fallow-timber-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- Mid Dorset and North Poole MP: Vikki Slade (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 May 1952
- Type
- Office
- Address
- Bridge House, South Street, Wareham Town, BH20 4LR
- OS grid reference
- SY 923 871
- Coordinates
- 50.68435, -2.10939
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bridge House, formerly known as the District Surveyor's Office, dates from the mid-18th century. The building is rendered and features a hipped tile roof with stone slates above the eaves. It stands two storeys tall and has a modillion eaves cornice. The façade includes three ranges of sash windows with glazing bars and keystones. There is a 20th-century door set within a neo-Georgian moulded surround. To the south, there are two window ranges, and to the east, there is a 19th-century extension that is similar in style, featuring brick stacks and three ranges of windows.
Local climate
Bridge House 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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