Dorset Military Museum is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 May 1975. Military museum.

Dorset Military Museum

WRENN ID
roaming-moat-umber
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 May 1975
Type
Military museum
Address
Dorset Military Museum, Bridport Road, Dorchester
OS grid reference
SY 687 906
Coordinates
50.71474, -2.44357
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Dorset Military Museum, built between 1876 and 1877, was originally the gatehouse to the Infantry Barracks. It is possibly designed by Major A C Seddon, who was the head of the War Office design branch at that time. The building is constructed from rock-faced Portland stone and stands four storeys tall. It features a crenellated parapet supported by corbels. At the front corners, there are round turrets that rise higher than the rest of the building, and these turrets are connected by a corbelled stone balcony at the first floor level. The façade includes seven ranges of lancet windows, and there is a segment-headed archway with spur stones. The lancet windows are arranged in a spiral pattern within the towers.

Local climate

Dorset Military Museum 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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