Public Library is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. Library. 5 related planning applications.
Public Library
- WRENN ID
- north-wattle-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Library
- Address
- Public Library, Middle Street, Burton Bradstock, DT6 4QR
- OS grid reference
- SY 488 895
- Coordinates
- 50.70336, -2.72597
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a public library, originally a Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, dated 1825. It features rubble stone walls with stone quoins and an asbestos slate roof with a tile ridge. There is a brick stack at the right-hand gable. The structure is one storey high and has two large 20th-century sash windows with glazing bars and wooden cills. The stone arch voussoirs are visible above the windows. There is a blocked round-arch entrance on the left side at ground level, which has one hexagonal 20th-century light. The door into the library is centrally located, made of planks and muntins, and has stone arch voussoirs above it.
Local climate
Public Library receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% 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 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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 — 5 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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