43, High West Street is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 May 1950. Shop/house. 3 related planning applications.

43, High West Street

WRENN ID
knotted-stronghold-candle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 May 1950
Type
Shop/house
Address
43, High West Street, Dorchester, DT1 1UT
OS grid reference
SY 689 907
Coordinates
50.7151, -2.44108
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 43 High West Street is a building dating from the 17th or early 18th century. It features a plastered exterior and a pitched tile roof, along with tall brick stacks. The building has two storeys and an attic, with two ranges of windows. On the left side, there is a two-storey canted bay window with a moulded cornice. On the right side, there is a restored 18th-century bowed shop window with glazing bars, and a bipartite sash window on the first floor. The entrance has a panelled door topped by an 18th-century hood supported by shaped brackets and a moulded architrave. Nos. 41 to 45 form a group with this building.

Local climate

43, 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.

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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2018
  • Related listed building consents — 3 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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