The Elms is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1985. Villa. 2 related planning applications.
The Elms
- WRENN ID
- wild-turret-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 May 1985
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- The Elms, East Street, Chickerell, DT3 4DR
- OS grid reference
- SY 643 805
- Coordinates
- 50.62384, -2.50559
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Elms is a villa located in a garden, dating from the early 19th century. It features stone walls that are stuccoed and have rusticated quoins. The south side wall is tile-hung, while the rear is constructed of brick. The villa has slate roofs, hipped on the left side and gabled on the right. There is a 20th-century brick stack at the right gable and two 19th-century brick stacks on the rear ridge at the left side. The building is two storeys high and has five windows, which are sashes with thin glazing bars and stone cills. The front elevation includes two large French windows with marginal glazing bars, and the central front door is a two-leaf design with recessed panels and two upper lights, topped by a small segmental fanlight. A verandah supported by cast-iron columns with plant motifs features a pentice roof made of corrugated plastic.
Inside, the villa boasts extensive plasterwork in the Hall, Dining Room, and Drawing Room. The Hall showcases a combination of 17th-century style motifs and foliage roundels with reticulations, along with an elliptical arch supported by reeded pilasters. The Drawing Room is adorned with a delicate strapwork plaster ceiling and a cornice rail decorated with festoons intertwined with strapwork. The north end bedrooms have segmental plaster ceilings featuring delicate strapwork and foliage, along with plasterwork dados. The six-panel doors have recessed panels. The interior plasterwork is notable for both its extensive coverage and high quality.
Local climate
The Elms receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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