Maltings of Messrs Eldridge Popes Brewery is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 May 1975. Brewery. 1 related planning application.

Maltings of Messrs Eldridge Popes Brewery

WRENN ID
brooding-turret-linden
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 May 1975
Type
Brewery
Address
Maltings of Messrs Eldridge Popes Brewery, Weymouth Avenue, Dorchester, DT1 1QT
OS grid reference
SY 692 901
Coordinates
50.71032, -2.43709
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Maltings of Messrs Eldridge Pope's Brewery, built in 1879, is a two-storey structure made of brown, red, and yellow brick with a slate roof. The east end of the building is taller and features a gabled design with the ridge oriented at 90 degrees to the building's axis, adorned with elaborate bargeboards. There are 13 ranges of segment-headed planked openings, along with two pilaster strips and brick machicolations beneath the eaves. A panel displaying a shield with the EP monogram is also present. The west end has two pyramidal roofs equipped with ventilators. This building is part of a group of listed structures associated with Messrs Eldridge Pope's Brewery.

Local climate

Maltings of Messrs Eldridge Popes Brewery 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.

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