Giant View is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 November 1985. Former workhouse, flats. 4 related planning applications.
Giant View
- WRENN ID
- rooted-newel-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 November 1985
- Type
- Former workhouse, flats
- Address
- Giant View, Acreman Street, Cerne Abbas, DT2 7AL
- OS grid reference
- ST 661 016
- Coordinates
- 50.81382, -2.48181
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Giant View is a former Union Workhouse, now converted into private flats, built in 1836 and 1841. The building features rendered walls and hipped slate roofs, with brick stacks on two projecting wings and the front range. It has a cross-plan layout with outhouses at the ends of the front range. The structure is three storeys high and has four windows on the front and street sides, which are fitted with two-light cast-iron casements and wooden sills. There is a central doorway that is two-leaf and panelled, dating from the 19th century. The north and south wings are also three storeys tall and each has five windows. At the rear, there is a wing along with two outbuildings at the front, constructed of rubble-stone, painted, and topped with hipped slate roofs.
Local climate
Giant View receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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 — 1 transaction since 2015
- 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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