17 and 19, Downes Street is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. House. 4 related planning applications.
17 and 19, Downes Street
- WRENN ID
- young-gateway-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- 17 and 19, Downes Street, Bridport, DT6 3JR
- OS grid reference
- SY 466 930
- Coordinates
- 50.7342, -2.75742
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 17 and 19 Downes Street are a pair of buildings dating from the early to mid-19th century. They are constructed of ashlar and have a half-hipped slate roof with an eaves cornice. The central part of the front of the building projects forward. The windows are sash windows, with the ground floor windows being three-light. They have doors with semi-circular fanlights, reeded imposts and transoms, and there are pedimented dormers. A large, central red brick stack is prominent.
Nos 17 and 19 form a group with Rax, its garden wall, The Grove, its garden wall, No 32 and its outhouses, the gatehouse of No 32 and its wall, outhouses to the south of Wykes Court Garden, Nos 13, 15, 19 and 31 Rax Lane, and with Wykes Court, its garden wall, the Conservative Club and former stables south of the Conservative Club, and North Street.
Local climate
17 and 19, Downes Street 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2014
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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